![]() I took it out, devoured it, loved it and wrote a rhapsodic appreciation – which didn’t get me a high mark, because, as my tutor commented, “It’s clear that the book made a great impression on you, but you haven’t said a single thing about how you’d present it to children.” In truth, I hadn’t been thinking of children at all I simply loved the book for myself.įor anyone who hasn’t read it (go on, give yourself a treat!), it’s quite a traditional story in some ways, beginning with twelve-year-old Christina, an orphan, travelling to the Essex countryside to live with an irascible uncle and two boy cousins she’s never met. ![]() Unsure what to choose, I was browsing in the college library when Flambards caught my eye. Training to teach English, I was given the assignment of selecting a children’s book and writing an essay on how I’d use it in the classroom. I came across Flambards in my twenties, and immediately thought it could have been written just for me. ![]() In the first of our new series about inspirational children's book creators, Linda Newbery revisits K M Peyton. ![]()
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