Phoenix Award
Going on the theory that hindsight is 20/20, the creators of the Phoenix Book Award decided it was time to look back 20 years and start recognizing those great books that failed to impress the judges of their day. Beginning in 1985, the Children's Literature Association began giving Phoenix Awards to books originally published in English 20 years previous that did not receive a major award at the time of its publication.
Nominations for the award are made by members of the Children's Literature Association and an elected committee makes the final decision. In 1989, the award also began recognizing honor books, though they have not been named every year.
The award itself, a picture of a phoenix, was designed by Trina Schart Hyman, herself a Caldecott-winning illustrator.
Winners
Year |
Award |
Title |
Author |
2005 |
Winner | The Catalogue of the Universe | Margaret Mahy |
| Honor | Fire and Hemlock | Diana Wynne Jones | |
2004 |
Winner | White Peak Farm | Berlie Doherty |
| Honor | Angel Square | Brian Doyle | |
2003 |
Winner | The Long Night Watch | Ivan Southall |
| Honor | A Solitary Blue | Cynthia Voigt | |
2002 |
Winner | A Formal Feeling | Zibby Oneal |
| Honor | Story for a Black Night | Clayton Bess | |
2001 |
Winner | The Seventh Raven | Peter Dickinson |
| Honor | The Night Journey | Kathryn Lasky | |
2000 |
Winner | Keeping of the Isis Light | Monica Hughes |
| Honor | The Fledgling | Jane Langton | |
1999 |
Winner | Throwing Shadows | E.L. Konigsburg |
1998 |
Winner | A Chance Child | Jill Paton Walsh |
| Honor | Beauty | Robin McKinley | |
| Honor | The Devil in Vienna | Doris Orgel | |
1997 |
Winner | I am the Cheese | Robert Cormier |
1996 |
Winner | The Stone Book | Alan Garner |
| Honor | Abel's Island | William Steig | |
1995 |
Winner | Dragonwings | Laurence Yep |
| Honor | Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbit | |
1994 |
Winner | Of Nightengales that Weep | Katherine Paterson |
| Honor | My Brother Sam is Dead | James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier | |
| Honor | Listen for the Fig Tree | Sharon Bell Mathis | |
1993 |
Winner | Carrie's War | Nina Bawden |
| Honor | A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver | E.L. Konigsburg | |
1992 |
Winner | A Sound of Chariots | Mollie Hunter |
1991 |
Winner | A Long Way from Verona | Jane Gardam |
| Honor | A Game of Dark | William Mayne | |
| Honor | The Tombs of Atuan | Ursula K LeGuin | |
1990 |
Winner | Enchantress from the Stars | Sylvia Louise Engdahl |
| Honor | Ravensgill | William Mayne | |
| Honor | Sing Down the Moon | Scott O'Dell | |
1989 |
Winner | The Night-Watchmen | Helen Cresswell |
| Honor | Brother Can You Spare a Dime? | Milton Meltzer | |
| Honor | Pistol | Adrienne Richard | |
1988 |
Winner | The Rider and his Horse | Erik Christian Haugaard |
1987 |
Winner | Smith | Leon Garfield |
1986 |
Winner | Queenie Peavy | Robert Burch |
1985 |
Winner | The Mark of the Horse Lord | Rosemary Sutcliff |
