<Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 664668604 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> Hollow City </Td> </Tr> <P> Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a contemporary fantasy debut novel by American author Ransom Riggs . The story is told through a combination of narrative and vernacular photographs from the personal archives of collectors listed by the author . </P> <P> 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 . Riggs was a collector of photographs, but needed more for his novel . He met Leonard Lightfoot, a well - known collector at the Rose Bowl Flea Market, and was introduced to other collectors . The result was a story about a boy who follows clues from his grandfather's old photographs which lead him on an adventure that takes him to a large abandoned orphanage on Cairnholm, a fictional Welsh island . </P>

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