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YABBA – The Young Australians Best Book Awards

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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

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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2014 Ambassadors Project

YABBA is delighted to announce that the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund have granted us $15,000 to support Children’s Voices in Australian Fiction – YABBA Ambassadors Project in 2014. YABBA will fund Aussie Authors and Illustrators visiting schools to engage students with Recommending, Reading, Rating and Rewarding Australian fiction. The YABBA Ambassadors Project provides for up […]

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Every Child’s Voice Counts

Welcome to the 29th year of the YABBA Awards! When I did that little calculation in my head I had to go back and check it was right – and it is true!  The YABBA Awards were established by a dedicated team of volunteers back in 1985 with the single purpose of having children vote […]

2014 Important Dates

2014 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, […]