 First edition | |
| Author | Jan Mark |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Jim Russell |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's realist novel |
| Publisher | Kestrel Books |
Publication date | April 1976 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 174 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0-7226-5195-3 |
| OCLC | 16292884 |
| LC Class | PZ7.M33924 Th 1979[1] |
Thunder and Lightnings is a realistic children's novel by Jan Mark, published in 1976 by Kestrel Books of Harmondsworth in London, with illustrations by Jim Russell. Set in Norfolk, it features a developing friendship between two boys who share an interest in aeroplanes, living near RAF Coltishall during the months in 1974 when the Royal Air Force is phasing out its English Electric Lightning fighters and introducing the SEPECAT Jaguar.
Mark won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.[2] She also won a prize for children's novels by new writers, sponsored by The Guardian newspaper.[a]
Atheneum Books published the first U.S. edition in 1979, retaining the Russell illustrations.[1]
- ^ a b "Thunder and lightnings" (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-07-27.
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