A big congratulations to Morris Gleitzman for winning the YABBA Award for Fiction Yr 7-9 for Boy Overboard and to Andy Griffiths who took out the Awards for Fiction for Younger Readers with The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow.

Some of the shortlisted titles included Cat illustrated by Craig Smith,The Shaggy Gully Times written by Jackie French, The Tuckshop Kidby Pat Flynn, The Max Remy Series by Deb Abela, a couple of Specky Magee titles by Felice Arena and Tales of Deltora illustrated by Marc McBride.

Books shortlisted in the YABBA Awards are nominated and voted for by children