Actually, I want to share this series with everyone, kid or adult.
It's just the sort of story he'll want to read in, oh, about three years, maybe four depending on how he can take the clown kids, but he's never been scarred by the Mummenschanz mimes, so maybe he has a leg up. Let's just say I plan on flipping pages 92 and 93 super-fast.) Will Jacob and his friends decipher the prophecy and save peculiar-kind? Is the title a direct reference to the 1177 Persian poem of the same name, or is it just a coincidence? (I'm betting the former, and if so, what does it portend?) What does the photo showing a girl in bed surrounded by pictures of Elvis have to do with anything? I have to find out.Īnd WHY do I have to find out? Because the moment I started reading Miss Peregrine, I couldn't wait to share it with my son. Jacob and the peculiars are in America now, literally the Wild West of peculiar-dom, and I want to know what happens, creepy photographs and all (fans of the creepy will not be disappointed by the newly-released The Conference of the Birds. My deep dive into the world of Miss Peregrine has had to slow down a bit as piano recitals, 100 days of school, the science fair, and stomach viruses dominate my time, and I wish it hadn't. the moment I started reading 'Miss Peregrine,' I couldn't wait to share it with my son. Riggs' methods are as fascinating as his stories. What might he have dreamt for the people in my photographs? My grandmother in 1928, with her flapper dress on, head high, leg hitched up on the running board of an old car? My Native American grandmother, merely a blur in the background while the foreground is populated with chickens? A framed letter from some distant cousin, telling my great-grandmother in 1922 that another cousin Ida is lonesome in the country? What would their peculiarity have been? I tried to imagine the mind of Ransom Riggs, who, when he began Miss Peregrine, found the photos first and the story second. If you are anything like me and came to the party quite late, the Miss Peregrine series tells the story of Jacob Portman, grandson of the master storyteller and soon-to-be-revealed hero Abe Portman, his journey of self-discovery, teenaged angst, Welsh islands, romantic drama, and oh yes, time loops, ymbrynes, hollowgasts, Wights, and a cast of endearing (and at times quite annoying) peculiars who can control bees, raise the dead (for a little while at least), float, have two mouths, are invisible, shoot fire and see monsters no one else can see - all with the help of a generous sprinkling of vintage photographs, some creepy in their own right, some not.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Author Ransom RiggsĪs I sat in the broad daylight, tearing my way through Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Hollow City, and Library of Souls, I found myself scanning the photos of my grandparents and great grandparents that hung around me. I read the first three books in two days. If he'd been stuck in rainy 1818 Switzerland with Lord Byron, and Mary and Percy Shelley and taken up Byron's challenge to write a ghost story, Miss Peregrine would have given Frankenstein a run for its money. What's on page 115 that prompted such a reaction? Cue the Mummenschanz mimes.Īre You There God? It's Me, Juanita A Holiday Feast Of 'Fry Bread'? Yes, Please!īoy, can Ransom Riggs tell a story. But page 115 was all it took for me to put the book away for almost a decade. Perhaps if I had opened the book to any of the 352 pages other than page 115, it wouldn't have languished for lo, these past nine years. SO, several years ago, when Ransom Riggs debuted Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, I bought it, opened it, and shelved it right away. Though I have since learned that Mummenschanz is a highly respected theater troupe, they set me up to be very wary of creepiness, and I've lived my life avoiding it as best I can. Right there in the middle of Kermit and Fozzie came this absolutely terrifying act (terrifying to a two-year-old, and shoot, maybe to a much older person) whose commentary on human interaction was COMPLETELY lost on toddler me, and set me up for plenty of nightmares. One of my earliest memories is of a group of dancers dressed in black, pulling toilet paper from where their eyes should be I was two years old, they were on The Muppet Show, and I have never recovered. You see, creepy things creep me out, and not in a good way. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Conference of the Birds Author Ransom Riggs
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