Phoenix Award

Given by Children's Literature Association (ChLA)

Other Names: Phoenix Picture Book Award from the Children's Literature Association
62 Works 95,181 Books 2,644 Reviews ½ 4.0
Award for children's literature originally published in English that twenty years previously did not receive a major award at the time of its publication.
Stages:
All, Winner (40), Honor (22)
Categories:
All, Picture Book (2), No Category (60)
Years:
All, 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (2), 2014 (2), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (2), 2006 (3), 2005 (2), 2004 (2), 2003 (2), 2002 (2), 2001 (2), 2000 (2), 1999 (1), 1998 (3), 1997 (1), 1996 (2), 1995 (2), 1994 (3), 1993 (2), 1992 (1), 1991 (3), 1990 (3), 1989 (3), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1)

Winner 40

WorkCategoryYear
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka2022
Finding Grace by Alyssa Brugman2021
Many Stones by Carolyn Coman2020
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich2019
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange by Elizabeth Partridge2018
Wish Me Luck (Laurel-Leaf Books) by James Heneghan2017
Frindle by Andrew Clements2016
Swamp Angel by Anne IsaacsPicture Book2015
One Bird by Kyoko Mori2015
The Bear by Raymond BriggsPicture Book2014
Jesse by Gary Soto2014
The Frozen Waterfall by Gaye Hicyilmaz2013
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse2012
The Mozart Season by Virginia Euwer Wolff2011
The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff2010
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block2009
Eva by Peter Dickinson2008
Memory by Margaret Mahy2007
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones2006
Catalogue of the Universe by Margaret Mahy2005
White Peak Farm by Berlie Doherty2004
The Long Night Watch by Ivan Southall2003
A Formal Feeling by Zibby Oneal2002
The Seventh Raven by Peter Dickinson2001
The Keeper of the Isis Light by Monica Hughes2000
Throwing Shadows by E. L. Konigsburg1999
A Chance Child by Jill Paton Walsh1998
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier1997
The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner1996
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep1995
Of Nightingales That Weep by Katherine Paterson1994
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden1993
A Sound of Chariots by Mollie Hunter1992
A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam1991
Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Engdahl1990
The Night-Watchmen by Helen Cresswell1989
The Rider and His Horse by Erik Christian Haugaard1988
Smith by Leon Garfield1987
Queenie Peavy by Robert Burch1986
The Mark of the Horse Lord by Rosemary Sutcliff1985

Honor 22

WorkYear
Waiting for the Rain by Sheila Gordon2007
The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy2006
The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman2006
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones2005
Angel Square by Brian Doyle2004
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt2003
Story for a Black Night by Clayton Bess2002
The Night Journey by Kathryn Lasky2001
The Fledgling by Jane Langton2000
Beauty by Robin McKinley1998
The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel1998
Abel's Island by William Steig1996
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt1995
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier1994
Listen for the Fig Tree by Sharon Bell Mathis1994
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E. L. Konigsburg1993
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin1991
A Game of Dark by William Mayne1991
Ravensgill by William Mayne1990
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell1990
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? by Milton Meltzer1989
Pistol by Adrienne Richard1989

Descriptions

Award for children's literature originally published in English that twenty years previously did not receive a major award at the time of its publication. (English, Member-written)
The Phoenix Award is for children's literature, originally published in English, twenty years previously that did not receive a major award at the time of it's publication. The Phoenix Honor books are the finalists for the award that did not win. (English, Member-written)

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