2003 Texas Bluebonnet Award

Texas students in grades three through six picked The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring by Ruth Sanderson as the 2003 Texas Bluebonnet Award winner. Their vote closed out the 2002–2003 reading year, when young readers across the state worked through a master list of 20 books selected by a Texas Library Association committee. That list also featured And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon, Attack on Pearl Harbor and Cockroach Cooties. The winner and every other nominee from the 2002–2003 list are collected here.