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Children’s Literature Choice List 2003
Children’s Literature, an organization that promotes the love of reading among children, gives this award to the top 150 books of the year. The books range from those for age three and under all the way to young adult.

Jane Addams Book Award has been presented annually since 1953 by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. The award is given to the children’s book from the year before that “most effectively promotes the cause of peace, social justice and world community.”
The 2003 winners are Parvana’s Journey by Deborah Ellis and for the picture book category, Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Ann Grifalconi.