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The Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association, 1995-1999
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by Alethea Helbig, Agnes Perkins
Alethea Helbig
The Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association, 1995-1999
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by Alethea Helbig, Agnes Perkins
Alethea Helbig
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Overview
The Phoenix Award of The Children's Literature Association annually honors a children's book first published twenty years earlier that deserves special recognition for its literary merit. This volume, third in a set begun with the 1965 award, covers the years 1995 to 1999 and is a mini-library of essays, speeches, bibliographies, and biographical sketches surrounding the five award winners and six honor books. It contains the twenty-four essays presented at the association's annual conference on the Phoenix Award-winning books and on the honor books as well. Information is provided about each author, including a list of his or her works for children, and the acceptance speeches given by the award-winning authors are reprinted. Essay writers include such respected names in children's literature criticism as Jon Stott, Linnea Hendrickson, and Anita Tarr.This scholarly work is directed to the professions that attend to children's literature—librarians, educators, language scholars, other writers, and parents. It also serves as a guide for all those who care about timeless books and wish to make them available to children and young people.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780810840140 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 01/01/1993 |
Pages: | 280 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.34(h) x 0.81(d) |
About the Author
Alethea Helbig, Professor, and Agnes Perkins, Professor Emeritus, English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, have taught and published children's literature for many years and were instrumental in initiating master's and undergraduate programs in children's literature at Eastern Michigan. Perkins has served on the Phoenix selection committee, and Helbig has chaired the committee from its inception and is a past president of ChLA. They have published a series of encyclopedia works on fiction for children published by Greenwood and have also compiled three poetry anthologies (with Helen Hill; Crowell). Both have published numerous articles on children's literature and are working on supplements to the dictionaries of children's fiction and a book on multicultural imaginative literature for young people.
Table of Contents
Foreword | ix | |
Introduction | xiii | |
The Winners and the Honor Books of The Children's Literature Association Phoenix Award, 1995-1999 | xvii | |
The 1995 Phoenix Award Winner: Dragonwings | 1 | |
Acceptance | 3 | |
Biographical Sketch of Laurence Yep | 9 | |
Books by Laurence Yep | 11 | |
Dragonwings: Reading as Translation | 13 | |
Sweetwater: The Music of the Heart and of Darkness | 19 | |
The Outsider in Laurence Yep's Serpent Trilogy | 25 | |
The 1995 Phoenix Award Honor Book: Tuck Everlasting | 33 | |
Biographical Sketch of Natalie Babbitt | 35 | |
Books by Natalie Babbitt | 36 | |
Power, Freedom, and Imprisonment in Tuck Everlasting | 37 | |
The 1996 Phoenix Award Winner: The Stone Book | 43 | |
Acceptance | 45 | |
Biographical Sketch of Alan Garner | 53 | |
Books by Alan Garner | 55 | |
Paradox and Synthesis in Alan Garner's The Stone Book Quartet | 57 | |
Awareness of Place: Landscape in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath | 61 | |
"Why Must She See Owls and Not Flowers?": Gendered Myth in The Owl Service | 67 | |
Red Shift's Mythic Examination of Myth | 71 | |
The 1996 Phoenix Award Honor Book: Abel's Island | 77 | |
Biographical Sketch of William Steig | 79 | |
Books by William Steig | 81 | |
Abel's Island: From Possession to Vocation | 83 | |
The 1997 Phoenix Award Winner: I Am the Cheese | 89 | |
Acceptance | 91 | |
Looking Backward While Going Forward | 93 | |
Biographical Sketch of Robert Cormier | 107 | |
Books by Robert Cormier | 109 | |
The Age of Cheese: Readers Respond to Cormier | 111 | |
Truth, Fiction, and the Impossible in Robert Cormier's The Bumble Bee Flies Anyway and Fade | 119 | |
A Stranger in a World Unmade: Landscape in Robert Cormier's Chocolate War Novels | 127 | |
Tunes for Bears to Dance To: Prayers and Silence | 133 | |
Peace, Justice, and Liberation Theology in After the First Death | 139 | |
The 1998 Phoenix Award Winner: A Chance Child | 145 | |
Acceptance | 147 | |
Biographical Sketch of Jill Paton Walsh | 155 | |
Books by Jill Paton Walsh | 157 | |
A Distant Mirror: Jill Paton Walsh's A Chance Child and the Invisible Children of the Twentieth Century | 159 | |
"You Will Weep and Know Why": Jill Paton Walsh's Goldengrove and Unleaving | 165 | |
Displacement and Assimilation in Jill Paton Walsh's The Emperor's Winding Sheet | 173 | |
The 1998 Phoenix Award Honor Book: Beauty | 181 | |
Biographical Sketch of Robin McKinley | 183 | |
Books by Robin McKinley | 185 | |
Beauty: The Honor of Belief | 187 | |
The 1998 Phoenix Award Honor Book: The Devil in Vienna | 193 | |
Biographical Sketch of Doris Orgel | 195 | |
Books by Doris Orgel | 197 | |
Real and True Feelings about The Devil in Vienna: An Interview with Doris Orgel | 199 | |
The 1999 Phoenix Award Winner: Throwing Shadows | 207 | |
Acceptance | 209 | |
Biographical Sketch of E. L. Konigsburg | 211 | |
Books by E. L. Konigsburg | 213 | |
Throwing Shadows and the Unity of Effect | 215 | |
The Paradox of Knowing | 221 | |
Aliens in Their Own Land: E. L. Konigsburg's T-Backs, T-Shirts, COAT and Suit | 227 | |
The 1999 Phoenix Award Honor Book: The Disappearance | 235 | |
Biographical Sketch of Rosa Guy | 237 | |
Books by Rosa Guy | 239 | |
Imamu's Search for Mother in Rosa Guy's The Disappearance | 241 | |
The 1999 Phoenix Honor Book: Words by Heart | 247 | |
Biographical Sketch of Ouida Sebestyen | 249 | |
Books by Ouida Sebestyen | 251 | |
The Magic of Memory: Revival of the Lost by Remembering in Ouida Sebestyen's Words by Heart | 253 | |
About the Editors | 259 |
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