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Vintage Photos Spark Fantasy About Quirky Children

A girl who hovers above the ground, sisters who communicate without speaking, and a boy who can’t be seen unless he’s wearing clothes are among the youngsters who reside at a group home on an enchanted Welsh island. This is the setting for Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children , a fantasy that sends a teenager in search of the home, where his late grandfather lived as a child. Published by Philadelphia-based Quirk Books in June, the novel was inspired by vintage photos—some quite eerie indeed—discovered by Riggs at antique shops, flea markets, and in private collections. Riggs, a Los Angeles resident who blogs for mental_floss and wrote The Sherlock Holmes Handbook for Quirk, said he collected old photos as a kid, but hadn’t done so for many years. “I started this collection of old photos on a whim, when I started going through buckets of snapshots at antique stores or flea markets,” he says."It never occurred to me that there were so many beautiful pictures that had been orphaned and have been there in the world, waiting to be discovered. Over time, I found very very strange pictures of children, and wanted to know who they were, what their stories were. Since the photos had no context, I decided that I needed to catch up. "Riggs has shown photos of Jason Rekulak to Quirk, who had published his Sherlock Holmes Handbook, and suggested the author to write a novel weaving together the photos. "A light bulb went off in my head," said Riggs. “I’d always wanted to write a novel, but after attending film school, I’d spent five years knocking on Hollywood’s door and had put that idea aside.

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