Young Australians Best Book Awards
Encouraging Victorian children to Recommend, Read, Rate and Reward Australian books through an annual children's choice book award
YABBA is operated and managed by a volunteer committee, in 2013 the group is
During 2013 YABBA lost an integral part of our organisation with the passing of Mr Graham Davey. You can read about Graham through this announcement we made at the time of his passing.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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