Book Project 1

Book Project 1- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children trip to Wales!

Jacob Portman couldn’t get enough of Wales, old homes and solving the death of his beloved grandfather. And now you, the fans of Ransom Riggs novel summer novel can experience the suspense and discovery for yourself. An exclusive trip to Wales includes an eerie tour of the children’s mansion, a travel through the time loop and a chance to meet see Miss. Peregrine in her bird form.

In Miss. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Jacob Portman discovers and old abandoned, destroyed mansion that he eventually find out, contained his grandfather at one time. A fter intense exploration and unknown time travel, Jacob stumbles upon the children and Miss. Peregrine herself. The amazing place of Wales offers the reader the chance to personally experience what weather, city and lifestyle that Jacob was exposed too. “Fog closed around us like a blindfold. When the captain announced that we were nearly there, at first I thought he was kidding; all I could see from the ferry’s rolling deck was an endless curtain of gray. I clutched the rail and stared into the green waves…” (Page 66).

The old mansion was destroyed when Jacob first found it but the reader will be able to experience the house both ways. The first home they enter will be like the one Jacob first found, burned and torn apart with old artifacts and pictures scattered about. The second house down the road will contain actual people dressed as each child, performing each special power they have and even Miss. Peregrine herself in bird form. She will be located in the rear of the home, placed in a large, black iron cage. There will also be pictures floating around the home. Pictures of Emma and Jacob will be lined in a specific order to tell the story of them, “The entire history of my love life in a dusty box in the closet,” (Page 229). This quote from Emma herself explains why the pictures are so important to not only her and Jacob’s relationship but to the plot of the story as well. 

 One of the last expeditions that will be offered to the fans will be a chance to solve the murder at the bay themselves. The hunt will take them to different places around Wales like the bar/hotel that Jacob and his father were staying at as well as the bog which Jacob is forced to run through multiple times in the novel. "I could feel the bog sucking me down with it. The more I struggled, the more it seemed to want me. What a strange find the two of us would make a thousand years form now, I thought, perserved together in the past," (Page 303).

                Travel is enjoyable for most people and seeing new places and having new experiences broadens people’s perspective. Taking the time to travel to a foreign country will give the reader the exact feeling that Jacob had. People who maybe had only a slight interest in the book while reading it will be able to dive deeper into the novel. The experiences they gain from Wales will begin the craving for more books from Ransom Riggs. This will be an experience of a lifetime and hopefully will encourage those involved to read more from Riggs as well as continue their stay in Wales longer than the tour and exploration of the home. Not only is this trip designed to encourage more reading but it encourages peoples own exploration. I want people to begin to live like Jacob, and I think once they connect with the character on such a deep level, they will be able to fully understand why he did the things he did and why he traveled to all of the places that he did. Minus the flesh-eating monsters maybe.