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Sally Rippin is an Australian children's writer and illustrator. 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.
In 2022 Rippin published Wild Thing, based on her research into learning difficulties and dyslexia as a guidebook for other parents.
As of February 2024, Rippin is Australia's highest-selling woman author and her books have sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
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".
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
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
References
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- Sally Rippin
- Rippin (surname)
- John Marsden (writer)
- Dave Davies
- List of Australian women writers
- List of children's books featuring characters with limb differences
- Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Children's
- List of Australian women artists
- Children's Book of the Year Award for New Illustrator
- Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
