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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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2015 YABBA Yearly Planner

Getting your head around the entire YABBA program takes a bit of time.  Knowing when nominations are due, understanding the shortlist poster use, completing the internal school paperwork to get students to the Awards ceremony.  All this takes time to think through. We’ve produced this simple one page planner detailing each of the Recommend, Read, […]

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2014 Annual General Meeting

  Notice is hereby given to all members that the Annual General Meeting of the Young Australians Best Book Awards Council Inc will be held Monday 8 December 2014 at 6:45pm at 67 Sutherland Road Armadale. All members are invited to attend and nominate for the YABBA Council in 2015. The AGM Agenda All members are invited […]

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2014 Winners

  The YABBA Award winners have been declared for another year. Authors and illustrators attending the Awards Ceremony chatted with their young readers, and enthusiastically signed copies of their books. Those in attendance at Hillcrest Christian College on 28 October 2014 were:   The Last Thirteen Book One: 13 James Phelan Publisher – Scholastic 2013 […]