Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a children's book.
Miss Peregrine 's Home for Peculiar Children is a dark fantasy debut novel by American author Ransom Riggs . This young adult book was originally intended to be a picture book featuring photographs Riggs had collected , but on the advice of an editor at Quirk Books , he used the photographs as a guide from which to put together a narrative . Young adult fiction or young adult literature ( YA ) is fiction published for readers in their youth . Some sources claim it ranges from ages 12-18 , while authors and readers of `` young teen novels '' often define it as written for those aged 15 to the early 20s .