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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

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

Andy Griffiths – Author

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2013 AGM Announcment

2013 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 2 December 2013 at 7:00pm at 67 Sutherland Road Armadale. All members are invited to attend and nominate for the YABBA Council in 2014. The AGM Agenda All members are […]

2013 Winners

2013 Award 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 Haileybury Castlefield Brighton Campus on 6 November 2013 were: After Morris Gleitzman Publisher – Viking (Penguin) 2012 The 26 Storey Treehouse Andy […]

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YABBA Voting App

The YABBA Committee have been looking for new ways of engaging children in the annual voting process.  This lead us to think about the ways in which children access content on the net and how they spend a great deal of their time. Our ground breaking conclusion… mobile devices…  So we decided to build a […]