Editing K. M. Peyton (section)

==Honours and awards==
Peyton won the [[Guardian Prize]] for the Flambards trilogy, and won the Carnegie Medal for its second book.{{efn|name=GCFP |1=
The Guardian Prize is a once-in-a-lifetime award; previous winners are ineligible. Ordinarily it recognises one fiction book published during the preceding calendar year; exceptionally Peyton won for the Flambards trilogy completed in 1969.<ref name=relaunch/><ref name=awards/> For that publication year, the trilogy's second book won the Carnegie Medal and its third book was a commended runner-up.<ref name=medal1969/><ref name=ccsu/> [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)#Winners of multiple awards|Six authors]] not quite including Peyton have won the Carnegie Medal for their Guardian Prize-winning books.
}} 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. The others were ''Windfall'' (1962), ''The Maplin Bird'' (1964), ''The Plan for Birdmarsh'' (1965), and ''Thunder in the Sky'' (1966).<ref name=awards/><ref name=ccsu/>{{efn|name=HC}}

Peyton was awarded [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the [[2014 New Year Honours]] for services to children's literature.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60728|supp=y|page=17|date=31 December 2013}}</ref>