Phoenix Award

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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.[a]

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]

Latest Award[]

The 33rd annual Phoenix Award and fifth Phoenix Picture Book Award were presented on June 24 2017 at the ChLA Annual Conference hosted by the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. The 2018 Phoenix Award winner has also been announced.[1] The awards are included in the tables below.

Phoenix Award winners[]

There have been 35 Award winners and 35 Honor Books announced since 1985 (1965 to 1998 publications).[1][3][4][5]

Phoenix Award 1985 to present[a]
Year Winner Honor Books
2021 Alyssa Brugman, ,

Chris Crutcher, Whale Talk

2020 Carolyn Coman, Walter Dean Myers,
2019 Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House Connie Porter,
2018 Elizabeth Partridge, (none)
2017 James Heneghan, Paul Fleischman, Seedfolks
Naomi Shihab Nye, Habibi
2016 Andrew Clements, Frindle (none)
2015[1] , (none)
2014[6] Gary Soto, Jesse Graham Salisbury, Under the Blood Red Sun
2013[5][7] , Walter Dean Myers,
2012‡[4] Karen Hesse, Letters from Rifka Michael Dorris,
Frances Temple, Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti
2011‡ Virginia Euwer Wolff, Mary Downing Hahn,
Eloise McGraw,
2010 Rosemary Sutcliff, (none)
2009 Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat Sylvia Cassedy,
2008‡ Peter Dickinson, Eva Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic
2007 Margaret Mahy, Sheila Gordon, Waiting for the Rain
2006 Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle Margaret Mahy, The Tricksters
Philip Pullman, The Shadow in the Plate (The Shadow in the North)
2005 Margaret Mahy, The Catalogue of the Universe Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock
2004‡ Berlie Doherty, Brian Doyle, Angel Square
2003 Ivan Southall, Cynthia Voigt, A Solitary Blue
2002‡ , Clayton Bess, Story for a Black Night
2001‡ Peter Dickinson, Kathryn Lasky, The Night Journey
2000‡ Monica Hughes, Keeper of the Isis Light Jane Langton,
1999 E.L. Konigsburg, Rosa Guy,
, Words by Heart
1998 Jill Paton Walsh, Robin McKinley, Beauty
Doris Orgel,
1997 Robert Cormier, I Am the Cheese (none)
1996 Alan Garner, The Stone Book William Steig, Abel's Island
1995 Laurence Yep, Dragonwings Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
1994 Katherine Paterson, Of Nightingales That Weep James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, My Brother Sam is Dead 
Sharon Bell Mathis,
1993 Nina Bawden, Carrie's War E.L. Konigsburg,
1992 Mollie Hunter, (none)
1991 Jane Gardam, William Mayne,
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan
1990 Sylvia Engdahl, Enchantress from the Stars William Mayne,
Scott O'Dell, Sing Down the Moon
1989 Helen Cresswell, The Night Watchmen Milton Meltzer, Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
,
1988 Erik Christian Haugaard,   Honor books were instituted in 1989.[1]
1987 Leon Garfield,
1986 Robert J. Burch,
1985 Rosemary Sutcliff, The Mark of the Horse Lord
‡ Seven acceptance speeches have been published online in one of two locations:[1][8] Monica Hughes, 2000; Peter Dickinson, 2001; , 2002; Berlie Doherty, 2004; Peter Dickinson, 2008; Virginia Euwer Wolff, 2011; Karen Hesse, 2012.

Multiple awards[]

As of 2021, there have been three two-time winners of the Phoenix Award:[3]

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.[2]

The writer is listed first, the illustrator second if distinct.

Phoenix Picture Book Award, 2013 to present[2]
Year Winner Honor Books
2021 Grace Lin, Dim Sum for Everyone! Francisco X. Alarcón and Maya Christina Gonzalez, Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems/Iguanas en la nieve y otros poemas de inviero

Shaun Tan, The Red Tree

2020 Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing Christopher Myers, Wings
2019 Christopher Myers, Black Cat and Floyd Cooper Tree of Hope
2018 Robert D. San Souci and Brian Pinkney, and Robin Preiss Glasser,
2017 and Petra Mathers, Demi,
2016 Molly Bang, Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney, Sam and the Tigers
2015   Sara Fanelli,   Charlotte Zolotow and ,  
  (revised and newly illustrated, 1995)double-dagger

Kady MacDonald Denton,  

2014[6] Raymond Briggs, Peggy Rathmann,

Anne Isaacs and Paul O. Zelinsky,

2013[7] Kevin Henkes, Denise Fleming, In the Small, Small Pond
double-dagger , written by Zolotow and illustrated by Vitale (HarperCollins, 1995), "revised and newly illustrated" OCLC 731251488. , written by Zolotow and edited by Ursula Nordstrom, was published in 1962 with illustrations by Howard Knotts (New York: Harper & Row, OCLC 427201792) and by (London: Abelard-Schuman, OCLC 680167163).

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b See multiple sources for identification of all winners and honor books 1985 to 2018 (as of June 2017): winners and honor books tables 1985 to 2009[9] brochure 1985 to 2012[3] top page archived 2012[4] top page archived 2013[5] newsletter 2012.2[7] newsletter 2013.2[6] current top page[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h "Phoenix Award" Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine (current top page). Children's Literature Association (ChLA). Retrieved 2014-07-11.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Phoenix Picture Book Award" Archived 2016-12-19 at the Wayback Machine. ChLA. 2014. Retrieved 2014-07-11.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "The Phoenix Award"[permanent dead link] (brochure). ChLA. 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-24 and 2014-07-11.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Phoenix Award" (top page). ChLA. Archived 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Phoenix Award" (top page). ChLA. Archived 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2013-12-10.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c ChLA Newsletter. Vol. 20, Issue 2 (Autumn 2013) Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 6–7. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
      Pages 2–7 comprise material related to the June 2014 annual conference.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c ChLA Newsletter. Vol. 19, Issue 2 (Autumn 2012) Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine. p. 6. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
  8. ^ "List of Phoenix Award Papers" (2000–2010). ChLA. Archived 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2014-07-13. The linked papers are not archived here (Internet Archive).
  9. ^ "Previous Award and Honor Books Recipients" (1985–2009). ChLA. January 2010. Retrieved 2014-07-13.

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