Awards
Beside winning the Guardian Prize for the Flambards trilogy and the Carnegie Medal for its second book, Peyton was a commended runner up for the Carnegie Medal six times in eight years during the 1960s. One runner up was the first Flambards book, another was the third in competition with the Medal-winning second. The others were Windfall (1962), The Maplin Bird (1964), The Plan for Birdmarsh (1965), and Thunder in the Sky (1966).
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