The Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association
Alethea Helbig & Agnes Perkins, eds.
Volume 1 (1985-1989)
182 pp.
1993
ISBN 0-8108-2677-1
$26.00
Volume 2 (1990-1994)
304pp.
1996
ISBN 0-8108-3191-0
$45.00
The Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association was established in 1985. The award is given to the author, or the estate of the author, of a book for children published twenty years earlier and is deserving of special recognition for its high literary quality. The award is intended to honor novels of enduring literary merit and celebrate their universality and timelessness.
Volume 1 includes award-winning writers Rosemary Sutcliff, Robert Burch, Leon Garfield, Erik Christian Haugaard, and Helen Cresswell. Volume 2 includes award-winning writers Sylvia Louise Engdahl, Jane Gardam, Mollie Hunter, Nina Bawden, and Katherine Paterson. Within the volumes, each chapter on an award-winning author includes a biographical sketch, a selection of criticism on the award-winning book, a listing of the author's books for children, and the author's acceptance speech presented at the Association's awards banquet held during the annual conference.
Alethea Helbig, professor, and Agnes Perkins, professor emeritus, English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, have taught and published in the field of children's literature for many years and were instrumental in initiating master's and undergraduate programs in children's literature at Eastern Michigan University. Helbig has chaired the Phoenix Award selection committee from its inception and is a past president of the Children's Literature Association. Perkins has served on the Phoenix Award selection committee.
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