Eating Crow With 'Miss Peregrine' — And Enjoying It
Our kids' books columnist Juanita Giles says she avoided the Miss Peregrine series for years because it seemed too creepy — but now she regrets all the time the books spent untouched on her shelf.
I'm going to eat a little crow.
You see, creepy things creep me out, and not in a good way. One of my earliest memories is of ; I was two years old, they were on , and I have never recovered. Right there in the middle of Kermit and Fozzie came this absolutely terrifying act (terrifying to a two-year-old, and shoot, maybe to a much older person) whose commentary on human interaction was COMPLETELY lost on toddler me, and set me up for plenty of nightmares. Though I have since learned that is a highly respected theater troupe, they set me up to be
