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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]

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	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1985	Rosemary Sutcliff	The Mark of the Horse Lord	Winner
1986	Robert J. Burch	Queenie Peavy	Winner
1987	Leon Garfield	Smith	Winner
1988	Erik Christian Haugaard	The Rider and his Horse	Winner
1989^[b]	Helen Cresswell	The Night Watchmen	Winner
	Milton Meltzer	Brother Can You Spare a Dime?	Honor
	Adrienne Richard	Pistol	Honor
1990	Sylvia Engdahl	Enchantress from the Stars	Winner
	William Mayne	Ravensgill	Honor
	Scott O'Dell	Sing Down the Moon	Honor
1991	Jane Gardam	A Long Way from Verona	Winner
	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Tombs of Atuan	Honor
	William Mayne	A Game of Dark	Honor
1992	Mollie Hunter	A Sound of Chariots	Winner
1993	Nina Bawden	Carrie's War	Winner
1993	E.L. Konigsburg	A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver	Honor
1994	Katherine Paterson	Of Nightingales That Weep	Winner
	James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier	My Brother Sam is Dead	Honor
	Sharon Bell Mathis	Listen for the Fig Tree	Honor
1995	Laurence Yep	Dragonwings	Winner
1995	Natalie Babbitt	Tuck Everlasting	Honor
1996	Alan Garner	The Stone Book	Winner
1996	William Steig	Abel's Island	Honor
1997	Robert Cormier	I Am the Cheese	Winner
1998	Jill Paton Walsh	A Chance Child	Winner
	Robin McKinley	Beauty	Honor
	Doris Orgel	The Devil in Vienna	Honor
1999	E.L. Konigsburg	Throwing Shadows	Winner
	Rosa Guy	The Disappearance	Honor
	Ouida Sebestyen	Words by Heart	Honor
2000^[c]	Monica Hughes	Keeper of the Isis Light	Winner
2000^[c]	Jane Langton	The Fledgling	Honor
2001^[c]	Peter Dickinson	The Seventh Raven	Winner
2001^[c]	Kathryn Lasky	The Night Journey	Honor
2002^[c]	Zibby Oneal	A Formal Feeling	Winner
2002^[c]	Clayton Bess	Story for a Black Night	Honor
2003	Ivan Southall	The Long Night Watch	Winner
2003	Cynthia Voigt	A Solitary Blue	Honor
2004^[c]	Berlie Doherty	White Peak Farm	Winner
2004^[c]	Brian Doyle	Angel Square	Honor
2005	Margaret Mahy	The Catalogue of the Universe	Winner
2005	Diana Wynne Jones	Fire and Hemlock	Honor
2006	Diana Wynne Jones	Howl's Moving Castle	Winner
	Margaret Mahy	The Tricksters	Honor
	Philip Pullman	The Shadow in the Plate	Honor
2007	Margaret Mahy	Memory	Winner
2007	Sheila Gordon	Waiting for the Rain	Honor
2008	Peter Dickinson	Eva	Winner
2008	Jane Yolen	The Devil's Arithmetic	Honor
2009	Francesca Lia Block	Weetzie Bat	Winner
2009	Sylvia Cassedy	Lucie Babbidge’s House	Honor
2010	Rosemary Sutcliff	The Shining Company	Winner
2011^[c]	Virginia Euwer Wolff	The Mozart Season	Winner
	Mary Downing Hahn	Stepping on the Cracks	Honor
	Eloise McGraw	The Striped Ships	Honor
2012^[c]	Karen Hesse	Letters from Rifka	Winner	^[4]
	Michael Dorris	Morning Girl	Honor	^[4]
	Frances Temple	Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti	Honor	^[4]
2013	Gaye Hiçyilmaz	The Frozen Waterfall	Winner	^[5]^[7]
2013	Walter Dean Myers	Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary	Honor	^[5]^[7]
2014	Gary Soto	Jesse	Winner	^[8]
2014	Graham Salisbury	Under the Blood Red Sun	Honor	^[8]
2015	Kyoko Mori	One Bird	Winner	^[1]
2016	Andrew Clements	Frindle	Winner
2017	James Heneghan	Wish Me Luck	Winner
	Paul Fleischman	Seedfolks	Honor
	Naomi Shihab Nye	Habibi	Honor
2018	Elizabeth Partridge	Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange	Winner
2019	Louise Erdrich	The Birchbark House	Winner
2019	Connie Porter	Imani All Mine	Honor
2020	Carolyn Coman	Many Stones	Winner
2020	Walter Dean Myers	145th Street: Short Stories	Honor
2021	Alyssa Brugman	Finding Grace	Winner
	Chris Crutcher	Whale Talk	Honor
	Tony Johnston	Any Small Goodness	Honor
2022	Julie Otsuka	When the Emperor Was Divine	Winner
2022	Linda Sue Park	When My Name Was Keko	Honor
2023	Tim Tingle	Walking the Choctaw Road	Winner
2023	Richard Maurer	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.

Phoenix Picture Book Award, 2013 to present^[2]
Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2013	Kevin Henkes	Owen	Winner	^[7]
2013	Denise Fleming	In the Small, Small Pond	Honor	^[7]
2014	Raymond Briggs	The Bear	Winner	^[8]
	Anne Isaacs, illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky	Swamp Angel	Honor	^[8]
	Peggy Rathmann	Good Night, Gorilla	Honor	^[8]
2015	Sara Fanelli	My Map Book	Winner
	Kady MacDonald Denton	Would They Love a Lion?	Honor
	Charlotte Zolotow, illus. by Stefano Vitale	When the Wind Stops (revised and newly illustrated, 1995)^[d]	Honor
2016	Molly Bang	Goose	Winner
2016	Julius Lester, illus. by Jerry Pinkney	Sam and the Tigers	Honor
2017	Mary McKenna Siddals, illus. by Petra Mathers	Tell Me a Season	Winner
2017	Demi	One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Tale	Honor
2018	Robert D. San Souci and Brian Pinkney	Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella	Winner
2018	Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman, illus. by Robin Preiss Glasser	You Can’t Take A Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum	Honor
2019	Christopher Myers	Black Cat	Winner
2019	Amy Littlesuger, illus. by Floyd Cooper	Tree of Hope	Honor
2020	Shaun Tan	The Lost Thing	Winner
2020	Christopher Myers	Wings	Honor
2021	Grace Lin	Dim Sum for Everyone!	Winner
	Francisco X. Alarcón, illus. by Maya Christina Gonzalez	Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems/Iguanas en la nieve y otros poemas de inviero	Honor
	Shaun Tan	The Red Tree	Honor
2022	Allen Say	Home of the Brave	Winner
	Lauren Child, illus. by Maya Christina Gonzalez	Who’s Afraid of The Big Bad Book?	Honor
	Mordicai Gerstein	What Charlie Heard	Honor
	Julius Lester, illus. by Joe Cepeda	Why Heaven is Far Away	Honor
2023	Marla Frazee	Roller Coaster	Winner
	Yuyi Morales	Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book	Honor
	Jerdine Nolen, illus. by Kadir Nelson	Thunder Rose	Honor

Notes

^ ^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^[8] current top page^[1]
^ Honor books were instituted in 1989.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Seven acceptance speeches have been published online in one of two locations:^[1]^[6] Monica Hughes, 2000; Peter Dickinson, 2001; Zibby Oneal, 2002; Berlie Doherty, 2004; Peter Dickinson, 2008; Virginia Euwer Wolff, 2011; and Karen Hesse, 2012.
^ The version of When the Wind Stops, written by Zolotow and illustrated by Vitale, eligible for the award was published by HarperCollins in 1995: OCLC 731251488. The original edition, written by Zolotow and edited by Ursula Nordstrom, was published in 1962 with illustrations by Howard Knotts (Harper & Row, OCLC 427201792) and by Joe Lasker (Abelard-Schuman, OCLC 680167163).

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Phoenix Award" Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine (current top page). Children's Literature Association (ChLA). Retrieved 2014-07-11.
^ ^a ^b "Phoenix Picture Book Award" Archived 2016-12-19 at the Wayback Machine. ChLA. 2014. Retrieved 2014-07-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c "The Phoenix Award"^{[permanent dead link‍]} (brochure). ChLA. 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-24 and 2014-07-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Phoenix Award" (top page). ChLA. Archived 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Phoenix Award" (top page). ChLA. Archived 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2013-12-10.
^ "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).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ChLA Newsletter. Vol. 19, Issue 2 (Autumn 2012) Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine. p. 6. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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.
^ "Previous Award and Honor Books Recipients" Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine (1985–2009). ChLA. January 2010. Retrieved 2014-07-13.

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 Project MUSE journal 301, Volume 1 (1976) to present; annual conference Proceedings, 1978 to 1991 only (subscription required) – open-access lists of contents include full bibliographic citations for articles and publications searches for authors