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 . The book has been a New York Times best seller . 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 .