K. M. Peyton

Who is K. M. Peyton?

Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton, who writes primarily as K. M. Peyton, is a British author of fiction for children and young adults.

She has written more than fifty novels including the much loved "Flambards" series of pony stories, for which she won both the 1969 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association and the 1970 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers. In 1979 the Flambards trilogy was adapted by Yorkshire Television as a 13-part TV series, Flambards, starring Christine McKenna as the heroine Christina Parsons.