Katrina Nannestad’s ‘Travelling bookshop : Mim and the baffling bully’ shortlisted at the 2023 YABBA Awards!
On the 17th of May, the 2023 YABBA Awards shortlisted Australian books were announced with Katrina Nannestad’s ‘Travelling bookshop : Mim and the baffling bully’ being shortlisted in the Younger Readers category…
Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they’re needed most … the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in a pretty Dutch village where she meets Willemina, a kind and gentle child, who is being bullied by a girl named Gerda. Mim knows they’re here to help Willemina. To change her life. To make her strong and brave and happy. If only Dad would find her the right book. If only he would stop giving everyone else the wrong book!
The Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBA) is an organisation that aims to provide children a voice within the general Australian children’s book industry. YABBA encourages children to recommend recent Australian published books, read all the recommendations for their peers, rate them against all others and then finally reward that book they feel is best.
Voting by Victorian school students closes on the 15th of September with the winners being announced on the 19th of October.