Post #3: Book 1 Project

If you loved reading about the peculiar children's adventures in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children then this is the perfect product for you. Buy a T-shirt with one of the outrageous pictures Jacob sees throughout the book to show your support for the peculiar children. It's the ultimate fan gear. You like the picture of the floating girl, Olive? Get it on a shirt. What about the picture of Victor holding a bolder over his head? Get it on a shirt. Or maybe you like the picture of Enoch with his homunculi. Get it on a shirt. Show that you are a proud fan of the Miss Peregrine series.

Ransom Riggs’ book is because he uses unique, old pictures to enhance his already spot-on character descriptions. As a young boy, Jacob is shown some old photos from his Grandfather’s childhood. These help to start Jacob’s journey to a little island off the coast of Wales. Upon finding more odd pictures at the house, Jacob finally comes to the realization that the stories that his Grandfather told him so many years ago were actually true. When Jacob first sees the peculiar children, everything seems to connect in his mind, “The pictures strewn before me, staring up at me just as the children stared down. I’d seen them in the photographs,” (Riggs 121). The pictures of the peculiar children make the book more interesting and intense to read. It creates a much more vivid picture in the mind of the readers, helping them fill in the gaps in their imagination.

The use of photos throughout the book helps Jacob as well as the reader. As Miss Peregrine explains to Jacob a story of a young girl she had once sheltered, Jacob recalls a photo that helps him place who she is. He recalls an elder lady dressed in little girl clothing, “‘I think I’ve seen her picture,’” (Riggs 211). Riggs uses these pictures to enhance readers thoughts about the characters looks. By looking at the black and white photos readers can understand more about the setting outside of what Riggs describes. Readers learn just how old these peculiar children are. They are shown in old suspenders and dresses that were worn during the time of World War II. The photos reinforce the idea that the children have not aged and really do come from the 1940’s.

For the peculiar children, keeping and looking at the photos helped them stay sane. Jacob finds old pictures of Emma and his grandfather hidden away in her room. Emma uses them as a reminder of her life before the loop started and there is something different that happens every day.  She explains to Jacob, “’And that, as they say, was that. […]It’s an old story,’” (Riggs 233). Keeping the memory alive, Emma keeps herself sane through the day that repeats itself. The loop makes it so that every day is September 3, 1940 and it resets itself every night. So although the day is the same, what the peculiar children do with does not have to be the same. So, readers, if you wish to wear something different other than an ordinary T-shirt that you wear every day, spice it up with a peculiar children T-shirt!

Not only does Ransom Riggs’ use of the peculiar photos enhance the reader’s experience but it makes his book unique and memorable. Not many books can pull off the picture aspect as Riggs has. Be as close to the peculiar children as you can. Be unique, different, and unlike anyone you know. Be peculiar.  If you wish to go above and beyond like this book and expand your fan experience, you will buy a Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children shirt today!