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Tag: Phoenix Award

September 28, 2018 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: STEM Girl Fashions, the Death of “Hypothesis”, and More

Welcome to Fusenews! Or, as I like to call it, all the news that fit to fuse. Yeah. We’re still working on that one.   First off, a great illustrator for children has died. This was very much the case of me not knowing that he was still alive, only to be doubly saddened when […]

June 11, 2015 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Sweet Uncanny Valley High

Of all the most deserving, least lauded children’s book awards out there, my favorite might be The Phoenix Awards.  “The award, given to a book originally published in the English language, is intended to recognize books of high literary merit. The Phoenix Award is named after the fabled bird who rose from its ashes with […]

September 30, 2010 by Betsy Bird

The Phoenix Award: Quite Possibly the Least Known Award in Children’s Literature

When I was a mere slip of a lass learning my library rules like a good little MLIS student, I decided that I needed a thorough grounding in the great children’s books of yore.  So I made lists.  Lists and lists and lists of different kinds of children’s books to read. There was a Newbery […]

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