BOOK 1 PROJECT

My idea is to make the Miss. Peregrine’s house into a museum! We refurbish the house. We try to salvage as much furniture and appliances as we can. Especially the weighted and belted furniture Olive used. If we need more furniture we could make or find old vintage things from WWI time period that they might have had in the house. From the explosion some of the house is gone so fix some of it and keep part of it open.  We dig up the bed with Victor and put him in his original room and make it so people have to pay to see him.  Have a display case for all the children’s toys, clothes and pictures. Sell replica toys and clothes at a gift shop in the basement and make a photo album of all the photos. There should be a series of them, make them collectables. Miss Peregrine’s house would be a tourist attraction. We could give away free trips so even more people would want to come. And of course we will sell copies of the book. Part of the museum tour would be going to the site that the time loop was at.

My idea comes from all the parts of the book. Most of them are when Jacob is with the children and in the house. Since the house would be over 100 years old with no one living it in there will be a lot of refurbishing. When Jacob is exploring the house he says “…rooms that had become more outside then inside, character striped away by moisture and wind and layers of dirt. The ground floor was hopeless… ” (Riggs 102) Trying to salvage the weighted and belted chairs connects to the book because in the book it says “Olive the levitating girl had to be belted into a chair screwed to the floor so that she wouldn’t float up into the ceiling.” (Riggs 162). In the house there is a chair probably still screwed to the floor where Olive used to sit, that could be used for part of the museum.  When the bomb hit it only damaged the ground floor. Finding the toys and clothes the children used won’t be hard because when Jacob is it exploring the house the book describes the toys and how they were left right before the bomb went off “killing” the children.  “…wooden toys moldering in a box; crayons on a windowsill, their colors dulled…a dollhouse with dolls inside, lifter in an ornate prison…” (Riggs 102-103) When Jacob finally opens up the trunk by breaking it he discovers it is filled with pictures, like the book says “…I found a box of letters…they weren’t letters but photographs… dozens of them” (Riggs 107) My idea of making a photo album of all the pictures and selling them connects to the book because Jacob found a lot of pictures that weren’t destroyed by the explosion.

Mrs. Peregrine"s house after it was destroyed.  This is where the museum will be. 

My idea of turning the Miss. Peregrines house into a museum will broaden the audiences. People like taking vacations and visiting new places. The book is already well known, readers will be pouring into it to get more of the book they loved. They will bring there families and tell there friends about it and their friends will want to read it, and then they will want to come. The museum is family friendly and could be a fun experience for them.  More people will want to read the book because they see all the cool stuff that the museum has to offer them so the idea will give the book a lot of attention. My Idea keeps the already fans still connected to the book because thye can get the clothes the children where, the toys they played with and they get to experience the lifestyle of the children that they loved and enjoyed reading about in the book. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWrNyVhSJUU  This is how i envisions the photo album that the giftshop would sell and what the inside/outside of the house would look like.