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Sally Rippin
Australian author and illustrator of children's books From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sally Rippin is an Australian children's writer and illustrator.[1] She is the 2024–2025 Australian Children's Laureate.
Biography
Rippin was born in Darwin, in the Northern Territory. She grew up in South-East Asia.[1]
In 2022 Rippin published Wild Thing, based on her research into learning difficulties and dyslexia as a guidebook for other parents.[2]
In February 2024, it was reported that Rippin was Australia's highest-selling woman author and that her books had sold over 10 million copies worldwide.[3]
Rippin was appointed the Australian Children's Laureate for 2024–2025. In the role she will travel around Australia and promote reading. Her motto is "All kids can be readers".[3]
In July 2025 Rippin was appointed a member of the newly created Writing Australia Council, a peak body funded by the Australian government to support and promote Australian literature and the book publishing industry.[4][5]
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Selected publications
As author
Series
- The Billie B Brown series
- Billie Adventures
- Billie Mysteries
- Polly and Buster series
- School for Monsters series
- Super Mooper series, co-authored with Fiona Harris and Scott Edgar
- Our Australian Girl series
- Hey Jack! series
Individual books
- Come Over to My House, co-authored with Eliza Hull, Bright Light ISBN 9781761210082 (2022) – winner, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards, Three to Five Years, 2023[6]
- Wild Things: How we learn to read and what can happen if we don't, Hardie Grant, ISBN 9781760507640 (2022)
As illustrator
- Fang Fang's Chinese New Year, Omnibus Books, ISBN 1862912912 (1996) – winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards, CBCA Award for New Illustrator, 1997[7]
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References
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