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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!

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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 Shortlist

During Term 1 each year children across Victoria are asked to recommend their favourite Australian books to other children by nominating their four favourite 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 [...]

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2013 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.   The YABBA committee have helped this year.  We’ve produced this simple one [...]

Vale Graham Davey

Vale Graham Davey

It is with deep sadness we hear that Mr Graham Davey the YABBA President for more than 20 years passed away on Thursday 11 April 2013 after an exhausting battle with illness. We express our most heartfelt sympathy to Graham’s family during these difficult times. Graham worked tirelessly at promoting the Young Australians Best Book [...]