Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a 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 . Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (film) . The film stars Eva Green , Asa Butterfield , Chris O'Dowd , Allison Janney , Rupert Everett , Terence Stamp , Ella Purnell with Judi Dench and Samuel L. Jackson . The film premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin , Texas on September 25 , 2016 and was theatrically released in the United States on September 30 , 2016 by 20th Century Fox .