Editing Flambards

{{Short description|1967 novel}}
{{About|the novel|the television series based on the books|Flambards (TV series)|the theme park|Flambards Theme Park}}
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{{Infobox book
| name           = Flambards
| title_orig     = 
| translator     = 
| image          = File:Flambards.jpg
| image_size     = 
|caption         = First edition (UK
| author         = [[K. M. Peyton]]
| cover_artist   = [[Victor Ambrus]]
| illustrator    = Victor Ambrus <!-- my reading of cover image -->
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| genre          = [[Children's novel]], [[pony book]]
| publisher      = [[Oxford University Press]] (UK)<br>[[World Publishing Company|World Publishing Co.]] (US)
| pub_date       = September 1967
| media_type     = Print (hardback and paperback)
| pages          = 193 (first edition) <!-- WorldCat --><!-- 206 pp (first US ed.) -->
| isbn           = 0-19-271278-0
| isbn_note      = (1987) <!-- oclc=15590093 which also says "Originally published: 1967."; "For adolescents."; "illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus." -->
| oclc           = 465030
| congress       = PZ7.P4483 Fl<ref name=LCC1>
[http://lccn.loc.gov/68123692 "Flambards"] (first edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 3 August 2012.</ref><ref name=LCC2>
[http://lccn.loc.gov/68026977 "Flambards"] (first U.S. edition). LCC record. Retrieved 3 August 2012.</ref>
| preceded_by    = 
| followed_by    = [[The Edge of the Cloud]]
}}
'''''Flambards''''' is a novel for children or [[young adult fiction|young adults]] by [[K. M. Peyton]], first published by [[Oxford University Press]] in 1967 with illustrations by [[Victor Ambrus]]. Alternatively, "Flambards" is the trilogy (1967–1969) or series (1967–1981) named after its first book. The series is set in England just before, during, and after [[World War I]].

The novel ''Flambards'' (book one) features a teenage orphan and heiress Christina Parsons, who comes to live at Flambards, the impoverished [[Essex]] [[Estate (land)|estate]] owned by her crippled and tyrannical uncle, William Russell, and his two sons, Mark and Will.

== Novel summary ==

Christina Parsons, who has been shunted around the family since she was orphaned at the age of five years in 1901, is sent to live at Flambards with her mother's half-brother, the crippled Russell. Her Aunt Grace speculates that Russell plans for Christina to marry his son Mark to restore Flambards to its former glory using the money that she will inherit on her twenty-first birthday. Mark is as brutish as his father, with a great love for hunting, whereas the younger son William is terrified of horses after a hunting accident and aspires to be an aviator. Christina soon develops a love for horses and hunting. She also finds friendship with the injured William, who challenges her ideas on class boundaries. William and Christina eventually fall in love and run away from the hunt ball to London, hoping to marry.

==Series==

The fourth book controversially reversed the ending of the original trilogy, twelve years later and following the television series.

* ''Flambards'' (Oxford, 1967)
* ''[[The Edge of the Cloud]]'' (Oxford, 1969)
* ''[[Flambards in Summer]]'' (Oxford, 1969)
* ''[[Flambards Divided]]'' (1981)

For ''The Edge of the Cloud'', Peyton won the annual [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] from the [[CILIP|Library Association]], recognising the year's best children's book by a [[British subject]].<ref name=medal1969/> She was a commended runner-up for both the first and third books, the latter in competition with her Medal-winning work.<ref name=ccsu/><ref group=lower-alpha name=HC/>

She also won the 1970 [[Guardian Children's Fiction Prize]], conferred by ''The Guardian'' newspaper and judged by a panel of British children's writers.<ref name=relaunch/> Ordinarily the prize recognises one fiction book published during the preceding calendar year; exceptionally Peyton won for the Flambards trilogy completed in 1969.<ref name=peyton/><ref group=lower-alpha name=GCFP/>

The trilogy was [[film adaptation|adapted]] as a 13-part television series in 1979, ''[[Flambards (TV series)|Flambards]]'', starring [[Christine McKenna]] as Christina Parsons.

World Publishing issued a US edition of the first book in 1968, retaining the Ambrus illustrations.<ref name=LCC2/> World (Cleveland and New York) also published US editions of the second and third books in 1969 and 1970, also with the original illustrations, although all three novels were reset with a greater page-counts.

==See also==
{{Portal bar |Children's literature |Horses }} <!-- delete "bar" when there are about two ordinary See also -->

==Notes==
{{reflist |group=lower-alpha |refs=
<ref group=lower-alpha name=HC>
Since 1995 there are usually eight books on the Carnegie shortlist.  
According to CCSU some runners up through 2002 were Commended (from 1955) or Highly Commended (from 1966). There were about 160 commendations of both kinds in 48 years, including four for 1967 (one highly commended) and three for 1969.</ref>

<ref group=lower-alpha name=GCFP>
The Guardian Prize is once-in-a-lifetime; previous winners are ineligible. [[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.</ref> 
}}

==References==
{{reflist |refs=
<ref name=medal1969>
[http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/livingarchive/title.php?id=89 (Carnegie Winner 1969)]. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. [[CILIP]]. Retrieved 3 August 2012.</ref>
<ref name=ccsu>
[http://web.ccsu.edu/library/nadeau/award%20books/CarnegieMedal.htm "Carnegie Medal Award"]. 2007(?). Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. [[Central Connecticut State University]] ('''CCSU'''). Retrieved 3 August 2012.</ref>

<ref name=relaunch>
[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/12/guardianchildrensfictionprize2001.guardianchildrensfictionprize "Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners"]. ''The Guardian'' 12 March 2001. Retrieved 3 August 2012.</ref>
<ref name=peyton>
[http://kmpeyton.co.uk/awards "Awards"]. ''K. M. Peyton: Author''. K. M. Peyton. Retrieved 3 August 2012.</ref>

}}

==External links==
* {{worldcat |oclc=301848 }} —immediately, first US edition
* {{IMDb title|qid=Q5457099|title=Flambards}}
* [https://archive.today/20130105200559/http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/flambards/ a ''Flambards'' forum]
* [http://flambards.flyingdreams.org/ Flying Dreams] – a ''Flambards'' fan page
* [http://lianki.tripod.com/ a ''Flambards'' fan page]

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