Talk:Phoenix Award

Assessment
I still think this is a stub, it's long because of the list but still doesn't have very much info. If you disagree though, please remove the stub message --Dyss 20:40, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Now it provides more info and it is easily extensible. --P64 (talk) 19:01, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Coverage in biographies and books articles
This table (originally copied from the article) tracks how we cover the Phoenix Award in author biographies and in book articles. (WP:REDLINKS show which articles do not exist: one biography and 16 books in 28 cycles thru 2012.)

As I complete and sign this report, the Key is trivial because I have made our coverage adequate ( underscore ) in every one of the articles where we mention the award. -P64 2012-12-21

underscore -- adequate coverage ( underscore ) of the Phoenix Award (along with some other uniform revisions) ✅
 * Key


 * 2012: Karen Hesse, Letters from Rifka
 * 2011: Virginia Euwer Wolff, The Mozart Season &Dagger; --notice of online speech in reference
 * 2010: Rosemary Sutcliff, The Shining Company
 * 2009: Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat
 * 2008: Peter Dickinson[see 2001], Eva &Dagger; --substantial incorporation of speech in book article
 * 2007: Margaret Mahy, Memory
 * 2006: Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle (also 2005 runner-up) ✅
 * 2005: Margaret Mahy, The Catalogue of the Universe


 * 2004: Berlie Doherty, White Peak Farm &Dagger; --online speech incorporated ✅
 * 2003: Ivan Southall, The Long Night Watch
 * 2002: Zibby Oneal, A Formal Feeling &Dagger;
 * 2001: Peter Dickinson, The Seventh Raven &Dagger; --notice of both online speeches in references; work on biography in progress 2012-12-21
 * 2000: Monica Hughes, Keeper of the Isis Light &Dagger; --some use of the speech
 * 1999: E. L. Konigsburg, Throwing Shadows (also 1993 runner-up) ✅
 * ISFDB catalogues 1 novel as spec. fiction
 * 1998: Jill Paton Walsh, A Chance Child
 * 1997: Robert Cormier, I Am the Cheese
 * 1996: Alan Garner, The Stone Book redirects to series article The Stone Book Quartet
 * 1995: Laurence Yep, Dragonwings
 * 1994: Katherine Paterson, Of Nightingales That Weep
 * 1993: Nina Bawden, Carrie's War
 * 1992: Mollie Hunter, A Sound of Chariots
 * 1991: Jane Gardam, A Long Way from Verona
 * 1990: Sylvia Engdahl, Enchantress from the Stars
 * 1989: Helen Cresswell, The Night Watchmen
 * 1988: Erik Christian Haugaard, The Rider and his Horse
 * 1987: Leon Garfield, Smith
 * 1986: Robert J. Burch, Queenie Peavy
 * 1985: Rosemary Sutcliff, The Mark of the Horse Lord

(underconstruction) --P64 (talk) 19:01, 11 December ... [many revisions] ...

(completed and signed) There may be some book series articles that I have overlooked. --P64 (talk) 20:33, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * ... [many updates not signed and dated] ...

All writer biographies and book articles now include adequate basic coverage of the Phoenix Award. --P64 (talk) 22:55, 5 March 2013 (UTC) ✅
 * Oops. That report, as its details show, is for winners only. --P64 (talk) 01:54, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Unlike 1985 to 2012 (above), for which one source plus the current top page covers all writer biographies, the following need distinct references for the basic facts.

Phoenix updates
(in progress 2014-07-14)
 * 2013: Gaye Hiçyilmaz, The Frozen Waterfall
 * 2014: Gary Soto, [ Jesse (novel) --link not to be used in article space]
 * 2015: Kyoko Mori, One Bird

Picture Book updates
(in progress 2014-07-14)
 * 2013: Kevin Henkes, Owen // honor Denise Fleming
 * 2014: Raymond Briggs, The Bear // honor Peggy Rathmann Anne Isaacs, Paul O. Zelinsky
 * 2015: Sara Fanelli, My Map Book // honor Charlotte Zolotow Kady MacDonald Denton

--P64 (talk) 01:54, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Not to be confused
with the London Borough of Lambeth Phoenix Book Award, inaugurated 2007, wh "promotes reading for pleasure among Year 6 and Key Stage 3". --P64 (talk) 18:41, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Official website
The previous Phoenix Award top page (mid-2011 to some 2014, probably) --that is, the page at its previous URL, which now redirects-- was last captured at Internet Archive 2013-12-11. That is one day after, without change from, from my visit for the 2013 annual update. Phoenix Picture Book Award was captured one day later.

The new URL has not been captured at Internet Archive ... until my request now (done). It features the 2015 award, evidently having adopted one-year-advance announcement, perhaps at this year's conference and presentation (June 19 to 21). So we have no version of the top page that features the 2014 award; same for picture books.

The Children's Literature Association home page (http://www.childlitassn.org) has been captured from 2001 to date. ... With no URL change, there was a great change in look of archive copies between -06-20 and -07-07, the two most recent archive copies. The former date was during the annual conference 2014-06-19/21. ... Visiting numerous 2014 pages including all copies of the ChLA homepage, I find nothing about change in the Phoenix Award schedule or Phoenix Award activity at the June conference.

--P64 (talk) 17:32, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Phoenix Award Papers, reportedly from the annual conference panel sponsored by the Phoenix Award Committee --new URL but all content is 2000 to 2010.
 * ChLA Awards Banquet, sometimes/always covering Phoenix Award, I find audio-video only 2011 and 2012.
 * --P64 (talk) 17:41, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

2014 Awards
Identity of the 2014 winning picture book was posted 2013-06-20 by UMN-Morehead re its faculty member activities. The notice suggests to me that the 2014 committee decisive meeting occurred during the 2013 conference. ChLA did not announce the 2014 award on its public website (rather the 2013 award, which was presented at that conference) but perhaps on its members-only site.

The 2014 awards were featured in ChLA Newsletter Fall 2013; see p6-7. I'll now use this source for basic 2014 update (having done the basic 2015 update previously).

Open question: Has there been any change in the award schedule other than this month's announcement of 2015 awards on the public website (probably by update at once from 2013 to 2015)? Perhaps the decisive committee meeting has always occurred one year in advance, with announcement in ChLA member publications.

--P64 (talk) 18:02, 12 July 2014 (UTC)