What a week! Hot on the heels of the news of Toppling‘s shortlisting for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards, comes the equally exciting news that it has also been shortlisted for the YABBA Awards in the older readers category.

The YABBA Awards (YABBA stands for Young Australians’ Best Book Award) are an annual children’s choice awards, where kids across Victoria nominate their favourite books. Shortlisted Books are then read, discussed and voted for by young readers, with winners announced in November.

What an awesome feeling to know that young readers have nominated my book – and that even more young readers will be reading it. After all, these are the very people I write for, so their approval means the world.

Because this is a children’s choice award I thought perhaps champagne was inappropriate. So instead my bubbles are in the form of soda water. Cheers!