Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children was based on photographs.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children . The story is told through a combination of narrative and vernacular photographs from the personal archives of collectors listed by the author . 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 . Miss Peregrine 's Home for Peculiar Children is a 2016 American dark fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and written by Jane Goldman , based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Ransom Riggs .