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Phoenix Award (1985-)
Subcategory of Children's Literature Association Awards
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Notes

  • Awarded by the Children's Literature Association 'for the most outstanding book for children published twenty years earlier which did not receive a major award at the time of publication ." (CLA website: http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/chla/)

  • Only Australian recipients listed.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2021

winner y separately published work icon Finding Grace Alyssa Brugman , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2001 Z893893 2001 single work novel young adult

'Told by sassy 18-year-old Rachel, this is a suspenseful, compassionate, yet laugh-out-loud funny story about looking after a woman with brain damage - and about tasting love, finding grace and getting a life. Rachel has just left school and she knows everything. Well, maybe not quite everything. Then she meets the mysterious Mr. Preston, who gives her a live-in job looking after Grace.' (Publication summary)

Year: 2003

winner y separately published work icon The Long Night Watch Ivan Southall , London : Methuen Children's Books , 1983 Z225187 1983 single work children's fiction children's

'During World War II, a sixteen-year-old patrols a deserted South Pacific island each night as he and other members of an Australian religious cult await the fiery end of the Earth and their deliverance.' (Publication summary)
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