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Script error: No such module "about".Template:Short description The Phoenix Award annually recognizes one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not then win a major literary award. It is named for the mythical bird phoenix that is reborn from its own ashes, signifying the book's rise from relative obscurity.[1]
The award was established and is conferred by the Children's Literature Association (ChLA), a nonprofit organization based in the United States whose mission is to advance "the serious study of children's literature". The winner is selected by an elected committee of five ChLA members, from nominations by members and outsiders. The token is a brass statue.[1]
The inaugural, 1985 Phoenix Award recognized The Mark of the Horse Lord by Rosemary Sutcliff (Oxford, 1965). Beginning 1989, as many as two runners-up have been designated "Honor Books", with 34 named for the 29 years to 2017.Template:Efn
A parallel award for children's picture books, the Phoenix Picture Book Award was approved in 2010 and inaugurated in 2013. There are two awards if the writer and illustrator are different people. "Books are considered not only for the quality of their illustrations, but for the way pictures and text work together to tell a story (whether fact or fiction). Wordless books are judged on the ability of the pictures alone to convey a story."[2]
Phoenix Award winners
There have been 35 Award winners and 35 Honor Books announced since 1985 (1965 to 1998 publications).[1][3][4][5]
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 1985 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| 1986 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Queenie Peavy | Winner | |
| 1987 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Smith | Winner | |
| 1988 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| 1989Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Brother Can You Spare a Dime? | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pistol | Honor | ||
| 1990 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Enchantress from the Stars | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ravensgill | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Sing Down the Moon | Honor | ||
| 1991 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| 1992 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| 1993 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Carrie's War | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| 1994 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Of Nightingales That Weep | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Christopher Collier | My Brother Sam is Dead | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Listen for the Fig Tree | Honor | ||
| 1995 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Dragonwings | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Tuck Everlasting | Honor | ||
| 1996 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Abel's Island | Honor | ||
| 1997 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | I Am the Cheese | Winner | |
| 1998 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Beauty | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| 1999 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Throwing Shadows | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Words by Heart | Honor | ||
| 2000Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Keeper of the Isis Light | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| 2001Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| 2002Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Story for a Black Night | Honor | ||
| 2003 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| 2004Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | White Peak Farm | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Angel Square | Honor | ||
| 2005 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Fire and Hemlock | Honor | ||
| 2006 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Howl's Moving Castle | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| 2007 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Memory | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Waiting for the Rain | Honor | ||
| 2008 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Eva | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| 2009 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Weetzie Bat | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Lucie Babbidge’s House | Honor | ||
| 2010 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| 2011Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Stepping on the Cracks | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| 2012Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Letters from Rifka | Winner | [4] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Morning Girl | Honor | [4] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti | Honor | [4] | |
| 2013 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | [5][6] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary | Honor | [5][6] | |
| 2014 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Jesse | Winner | [7] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Under the Blood Red Sun | Honor | [7] | |
| 2015 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | One Bird | Winner | [1] |
| 2016 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Frindle | Winner | |
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Wish Me Luck | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Seedfolks | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Habibi | Honor | ||
| 2018 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange | Winner | |
| 2019 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Imani All Mine | Honor | ||
| 2020 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Many Stones | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | 145th Street: Short Stories | Honor | ||
| 2021 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Finding Grace | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Whale Talk | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Any Small Goodness | Honor | ||
| 2022 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | When the Emperor Was Divine | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | When My Name Was Keoko | Honor | ||
| 2023 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Walking the Choctaw Road | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and Her Famous Brothers | Honor |
Multiple awards
As of 2021, there have been three two-time winners of the Phoenix Award:[3]
- Rosemary Sutcliff, 1985, 2010
- Peter Dickinson, 2001, 2008
- Margaret Mahy, 2005, 2007
Mahy of New Zealand was also a runner up in 2006.
Several of the winners have also received the British Carnegie Medal for other books: Sutcliff (1959); Garner (1967); Garfield (1970); Southall (1971); Hunter (1974); Dickinson (1979, 1980); Mahy (1982, 1984); Doherty (1986, 1991).
Three of the winners have also won the American Newbery Medal for other books: Konigsburg (1968 and 1997); Paterson (1978, 1981); Hesse (1998).
Picture Book Award winners
The Phoenix Picture Book Award was first given in 2013, for books originally published in 1993.
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Owen | Winner | [6] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | In the Small, Small Pond | Honor | [6] | |
| 2014 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | [7] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky | Swamp Angel | Honor | [7] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Good Night, Gorilla | Honor | [7] | |
| 2015 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | My Map Book | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Would They Love a Lion? | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., illus. by Stefano Vitale | When the Wind Stops (revised and newly illustrated, 1995)Template:Efn | Honor | ||
| 2016 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Goose | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., illus. by Jerry Pinkney | Sam and the Tigers | Honor | ||
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "Sort"., illus. by Petra Mathers | Tell Me a Season | Winner | |
| Demi | One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Tale | Honor | ||
| 2018 | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Brian Pinkney | Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., illus. by Robin Preiss Glasser | You Can’t Take A Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum | Honor | ||
| 2019 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Black Cat | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., illus. by Floyd Cooper | Tree of Hope | Honor | ||
| 2020 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Wings | Honor | ||
| 2021 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Dim Sum for Everyone! | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., illus. by Maya Christina Gonzalez | Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems/Iguanas en la nieve y otros poemas de inviero | Honor | ||
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| 2022 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Home of the Brave | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., illus. by Maya Christina Gonzalez | Who’s Afraid of The Big Bad Book? | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | What Charlie Heard | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., illus. by Joe Cepeda | Why Heaven is Far Away | Honor | ||
| 2023 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Roller Coaster | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., illus. by Kadir Nelson | Thunder Rose | Honor |
See also
Notes
References
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- ↑ a b c d "Phoenix Award" Template:Webarchive (current top page). Children's Literature Association (ChLA). Retrieved 2014-07-11.
- ↑ a b "Phoenix Picture Book Award" Template:Webarchive. ChLA. 2014. Retrieved 2014-07-11.
- ↑ a b "The Phoenix Award"Script error: No such module "Unsubst". (brochure). ChLA. 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-24 and 2014-07-11.
- ↑ a b c d "Phoenix Award" (top page). ChLA. Archived 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
- ↑ a b c "Phoenix Award" (top page). ChLA. Archived 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2013-12-10.
- ↑ a b c d ChLA Newsletter. Vol. 19, Issue 2 (Autumn 2012) Template:Webarchive. p. 6. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
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ChLA Newsletter. Vol. 20, Issue 2 (Autumn 2013) Template:Webarchive. pp. 6–7. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
Pages 2–7 comprise material related to the June 2014 annual conference.
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External links
- Phoenix Award web page
- Phoenix Picture Book Award web page
- Children's Literature Association (ChLA)
- Awards from previous years (1985–2007) at chla.wikispaces.com, predecessor to the ChLA website – identifies some publishers of later editions; provides award citations of 2005 to 2007 winners
- Children's Literature Association Quarterly Template:Project MUSE, Volume 1 (1976) to present; annual conference Proceedings, 1978 to 1991 only Template:Subscription required – open-access lists of contents include full bibliographic citations for articles and publications searches for authors