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:
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- Felice Arena
- Krista Bell
- Sherryl Clark
- Terry Denton
- Marjory Gardner
- Michael Gerard Bauer
- Bob Graham
- Andy Griffiths
- Nicole Hayes
- George Ivanoff
- Nicky Johnson
- Kim Kane
- Bernadette Kelly
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- Corrine Fenton
- Marc McBride
- Susannah McFarlane
- Chrissie Perry
- James Phelan
- Claire Saxby
- Michelle Vasiliu
- Coral Vass
- Adam Wallace
- Gabrielle Wang
- Carole Wilkinson
- Mark Wilson
- Tony Wilson
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[su_heading]The 2014 Award Winners[/su_heading]
[su_pullquote align=”left”]Winner Fiction Years 7-9[/su_pullquote]
The Last Thirteen Book One: 13
James Phelan
Publisher – Scholastic 2013
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[su_pullquote align=”left”]Fiction Older Readers[/su_pullquote]
The 39 Storey Treehouse
Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
Publisher – Pan Macmillan, 2013
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[su_pullquote align=”left”]Fiction Younger Readers[/su_pullquote]
Billie B Brown: The Best Project
Sally Rippin & Aki Fukuoka
Publisher – Hardie Grant Egmont, 2012
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[su_pullquote align=”left”]Picture Storybooks[/su_pullquote]
The Dreadful Fluff
Aaron Blabey
Publisher – Penguin, 2012
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Thank you for including me in today’s YABBA Awards celebration. It was a great morning, and lovely to meet so many keen and enthusiastic kids and teachers!
Thank You to the YABBA Committee and the staff at Hillcrest for the excellent day yesterday. The students from Lyndhurst Secondary, and the staff, Pam Macdonald & myself, had a very enjoyable day. The excitement of collecting autographs and meeting authors, familiar and soon to become familiar, was palpable throughout the drive to and from the venue.
Thank you to YABBA, Hillcrest and everyone involved in pulling together such a great event. Our students from Maranatha Christian School had a great time and some were so overwhelmed with meeting some of the authors that they were speechless! Thank you also for the gift of our great collection of books which had our students back at school wanting to read them ‘now’!