Phoenix Award Phoenix Award 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. The award was established and is conferred by the Children's Literature Association (ChLA), a nonprofit organization based in the United States whose mission is to advance "the serious study of children's literature". The winner is selected by an elected committee of five ChLA members, from nominations by members and outsiders. The token is a
Birds in Chinese mythology and actually real exotic birds is sometimes blurred. Sometimes, the student of the real versus the unreal becomes challenged. Various sources for information on Chinese legends and mythology about bird. This includes the "Shanhaijing" (Stassberg 2002, "passim"). Also, "Questions to Heaven" (Stassberg 2002, 11 and Yang "et al" 2005, 8-10). Birds in Chinese mythology Birds in Chinese mythology and legend are of numerous types and very important in this regard. Some of them are obviously based on real birds, other ones obviously not, and some in-between. The Crane is an example of a real type of bird with mythological enhancements.