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The Phoenix Award is awarded annually to a book originally published in English twenty years previously which did not receive a major award at the time of its publication.It was established in 1985 by the Children's Literature Association , an association that wishes to promote serious study of children's literature. The recipient is chosen by an elected committee of Children's Literature Association members from nominations made by members and others.
The award is named after the mythical bird Phoenix which rises from its ashes. It signifies the book's rise from obscurity.
1 List of Phoenix Award Winners
- 2003: Ivan Southall , The Long Night Watch
- 2002: Zibby Oneal , A Formal Feeling
- 2001: Peter Dickinson, The Seventh raven
- 2000: Monica Hughes , Keeper of the Isis Light
- 1999: E.L. Konigsburg, Throwing Shadows
- 1998: Jill Paton Walsh , A Chance Child
- Honor Book: Robin McKinley , Beauty
- Honor Book: Doris Orgel , The Devil in Vienna
- 1997: Robert Cormier, I Am the Cheese
- 1996: Alan Garner, The Stone Book
- 1995: Laurence Yep, Dragonwings
- 1994: Katherine PatersonKatherine Paterson is an award-winning American author of books for children. Katherine Paterson She was born in China in 1932 to missionary parents. She graduated with a degree in English from Kings College, Bristol, Tennessee. She taught for a year at a, Of Nightingales that Weep
- Honor Book: James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier , My Brother Sam is Dead
- Honor Book: Sharon Bell Mathis , Listen for the Fig Tree
- 1993: Nina Bawden , Carrie's War
- 1992: Mollie Hunter , A Sound of Chariots
- 1991: Jane Gardam , A Long Way from Verona
- Honor Book: William MayneWilliam Mayne ( 1928-) is a British writer of children's fiction. He was described as one of the outstanding children's authors of this century by the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, and is the winner of the Carnegie Medal and Guardian fiction, A Game of Dark
- Honor Book: Ursula LeGuin, The Tombs of AtuanThe Tombs of Atuan is the second of a series of books written by Ursula K. Le Guin and set in her fantasy archipelago of Earthsea. It follows on from A Wizard of Earthsea and is continued in The Farthest Shore''. Synopsis The story centers on a child who
- 1990: Sylvia Louise Engdahl , Enchantress from the Stars
- Honor Book: William MayneWilliam Mayne ( 1928-) is a British writer of children's fiction. He was described as one of the outstanding children's authors of this century by the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, and is the winner of the Carnegie Medal and Guardian fiction, Ravensgill
- Honor Book: Scott O'DellScott O'Dell born May 23 1898, died October 15 1989, was a children's author who wrote 26 books for young readers, along with three adult novels and four nonfiction books. He was most famously the author of the children's novel Island of the Blue Dolphins, Sing Down the Moon
- 1989: Helen CresswellHelen Cresswell is a British author of over 120 books for children including A Gift from Winklesea the Lizzie Dripping series, and The Bagthorpe Saga''. She has also adapted numerous stories for television, including Five Children and It and The Demon Hea, The Night-Watchmen
- Honor Book: Milton Meltzer , Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
- Honor Book: Adrienne Richard , Pistol45 Automatic A pistol is a usually small, hand held, projectile weapon, meant for personal use (used by one person) in short-range action. In the 15th century the term was used for small knives and daggers which could be concealed in a person's clothing.
- 1988: Erik Christian Haugaard , The Rider and his Horse
- 1987: Leon Garfield , Smith
- 1986: Robert Burch , Queenie Peavy
- 1985: Rosemary Sutcliff, The Mark of the Horse Lord
