The Phoenix Award is an award made by The Children's Literature Association that honors a book deserving special recognition for its high literary quality and is awarded to a book published 20 years earlier. The award encourages publishers to continue to make such books available and to suggest to readers that they hold dear those traits that have given such books universality and timelessness.
This new volume covers the year 1990 to 1994 and contains the papers presented on the award-winning books, as well as the honor books for each year. Information is provided about each author, including a list of his or her works for children and the acceptance speech given at the annual banquet.
A scholarly work that breathes with the life of a reading community, this outstanding volume is directed at the professionals who attend to children's literature—librarians, teacher educators, and scholars in the modern languages.
Phoenix Award Winners:Enchantress from the Stars (1970); A Long Way from Verona (1971); A Sound of Chariots (1972); Carrie's War (1973); Of Nightingales that Weep (1974).
Phoenix Honor Books: Ravensgill (1970); Sing Down the Moon (1970); The Tombs of Atuan (1971); A Game of Dark (1971); A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (1973); My Brother Sam is Dead (1974); Listen for the Fig Tree (1974).