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3 unusual facts about Phoenix Award


Howl's Moving Castle

Jones and Howl won the annual Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 2006, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award.

Ivan Southall

Earlier that year, the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association had recognised The Long Night Watch (Methuen Children's Books, 1983) as the best English-language children's book that did not a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier.

The Stone Book Quartet

The story won the 1996 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association as the best English-language children's book that did not gain a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier.


Carrie's War

Carrie's War won the 1993 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association as the best English-language children's book that did not receive a major contemporary award when it was originally published twenty years earlier.

Jane Gardam

It won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 1991, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award.

Jill Paton Walsh

In 1998 she won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association, recognizing A Chance Child as the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award.

Leon Garfield

Smith won the 1987 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association as the best English-language children's book that did not a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier.

Mollie Hunter

She won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 1992, recognising A Sound of Chariots (1972) as the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award.

Monica Hughes

The Keeper won the 2000 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association as the best English-language children's book that did not a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier.


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WQRZ-LP

WQRZ-LP was the first Broadcast Radio First Responder which earned American Radio Relay League Member Brice Philips the Small Business Administration's Phoenix Award, for "Outstanding Contributions to Disaster Recovery by a Volunteer".