Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is a captivating story about a very odd home for a select group of young children. When Jake's grandfather mysteriously dies, he goes off on an adventure to find Miss Peregrine and solve the mysteries of his grandfather's past life.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a 2016 fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and written by Jane Goldman, based on the 2011 novel by Ransom Riggs. The film stars Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O'Dowd, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell, Judi Dench, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Miss Peregrine's home symbolizes the conflict between protection of the peculiar children (especially from outside threats) and excessive restriction.

Based on a children's book by Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children was primarily filmed in the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Florida. The 2016 Tim Burton fantastic movie traveled to a mixture of locations and had a real house to picture the wondrous foundling home and the Welsh island of Cairnholm.

PG13 book for most kids. You have to like fantasy and a little bit of horror / creepy. Which I do. I put a 13+ rating because of the language. Most teens will have heard or said the things in this book.

Obviously, there aren't really people like this in the world, so there's no real home for them, but the idea for the story still came from the real world. The inspiration for the book came from Riggs' collection of vintage photographs.

Obviously, there aren't really people like this in the world, so there's no real home for them, but the idea for the story still came from the real world. The inspiration for the book came from Riggs' collection of vintage photographs.

Fox Was Interested In A Miss Peregrine Franchise Miss Peregrine pulled in almost $300 million worldwide against a $110 production budget, but considering Hollywood accounting dictates a film must make at least double its budget to make a profit Miss Peregrine's box office performance wasn't all that impressive.

An important moral: “It's alright to be different, because there are other people that are like you” are expressed in the novel. Each character describes how their lives were miserable in the outside world because they were either abused, or mocked at because of their abilities.

In the book, Barron only captures Miss Peregrine and Miss Avocet, not a cage full of birds like he does in the film. In the film, we get to see the twins take off their masks, and see their ability to turn people to stone. This is not in the book, unless it's from future reading.

i'd say if you're scared easily than you shouldn't read IT. it may bring some weird ideas and for some nightmares but that is all. so sure, if everything above applies then i think you're set. I started reading IT at 11 and 10 months and finished it just as I turned 12.

Subtleties of language and character make Emma most accessible to teens and up, but while younger readers may miss some nuances, there's no cause for parental concern on any other level.

Ransom Riggs may have intended for his novel, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, to turn into a fantasy/adventure movie; however, the film fits more into the broad genre of horror. Movie Director Tim Burton emphasized on the scariness and creepiness in the fantasy novel, published in 2011.

The pictures in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children are all old black and white photographs that the author, Ransom Riggs, found. The book was originally supposed to be a picture book minus the text but the author was advised by a colleague to use the photos to help write a narrative instead.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for intense sequences of fantasy action/violence and peril. Violence: Throughout the film characters are stalked by scary looking people with white eyes and terrifying monsters that crush, strangle and pluck out the eyes of anyone they catch.

In the novel, Miss Peregrine is taken captive by the evil Wight named Barron, but in the movie she more or less turns herself in as a way to sacrifice herself for the children. The novel ends on this cliffhanger as the boy decides to stay with the peculiars, fight Barron and help save Miss Peregrine.