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Flambards in Summer (Oxford, 1969) Flambards Divided (1981) For The Edge of the Cloud, Peyton won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. [3] She was a commended runner-up for both the first and third books, the latter in competition with her Medal-winning work ...
The Edge of the Cloud is a 1969 historical novel written for children or young adults by K. M. Peyton.It was the second book in Peyton's original Flambards trilogy, comprising three books published by Oxford with illustrations by Victor Ambrus (1967 to 1969), a series the author extended more than a decade later.
Peyton won the Guardian Prize for the Flambards trilogy, and won the Carnegie Medal for its second book. [ a ] She was also a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal six times in eight years during the 1960s—one of the books was the first Flambards book, another was the third Flambards book in competition with the Medal-winning second.
Flambards in Summer is a novel for children or young adults by K. M. Peyton, first published by Oxford in 1969 with illustrations by Victor Ambrus. It completed the Flambards trilogy (1967–1969) although Peyton continued the story a dozen years later, and controversially reversed the ending in Flambards Divided .
He sent me the books of Flambards by K.M. Peyton, together with the first part adapted for television by Alan Plater. On meeting the star of Flambards, Christine McKenna, who plays Christina in the series, I was convinced that the whistle was right for the signature tune. Keith Morgan, then Head of Music at Yorkshire Television, got the message ...
Flambards Divided (1981) is a sequel to the Flambards trilogy, ... Victor Watson, the editor of the Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English, has referred to ...
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