The Phoenix Award annually recognizes one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not then win a major literary award. It is named for the mythical bird phoenix that is reborn from its own ashes, signifying the book's rise from relative obscurity.

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  • Phoenix Award web page
  • Phoenix Picture Book Award web page
  • Children's Literature Association (ChLA)
  • Awards from previous years (1985–2007) at chla.wikispaces.com, predecessor to the ChLA website – identifies some publishers of later editions; provides award citations of 2005 to 2007 winners
  • Children's Literature Association Quarterly , Volume 1 (1976) to present; annual conference Proceedings, 1978 to 1991 only – open-access lists of contents include full bibliographic citations for articles and publications searches for authors <!--retrieved 2014-07-13-->