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You have found the Young Australians Best Book Awards website.

YABBA is the children’s choice book award in Victoria.

First given in 1986, YABBA has honoured popular Australian children’s books each year since.

What is YABBA all about?


It’s a huge, huge reward to be acknowledged by the actual readers you’re writing for!

Felice Arena – Author

The YABBA Awards… I think they’re the best part of the job.

Oliver Phommavanh – Author

I love the YABBA Awards… they’re the thing I look forward to the most every year.

Andy Griffiths – Author

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Ambassadors Project

YABBA Funding Authors and Illustrators Visits to Schools

This year YABBA received a $15,000 grant from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund (CAL) to fund 25 Aussie Authors and Illustrators to visit 25 Schools.  Both the creators and the schools were asked to submit expressions of interest to participate.   The competitive process occurred in Term 2 and now this term we have the creator […]

2014 Shortlist Poster Image

2014 Shortlist Poster

The 2014 Shortlist Poster has been completed! The YABBA Council wishes to thank Ms Nina Rycroft for the kind and generous donation of her artwork for inclusion in this year’s shortlist poster.  Nina’s artwork has been used to provide the inspiration for the entire shortlist poster, as well as using some incredibly hungry dinosaurs that […]

2014 Shortlist Slide

2014 Shortlist

During Term 1 each year children across Victoria are asked to recommend their favourite Australian books to other children by nominating four Australian titles. All nominations are collated and the 10 books with the most nominations in each of the award categories are the shortlisted books for that year.  Students are then encouraged to read […]