Sally Rippin is an Australian children's writer and illustrator. She is the 2024–2025

Australian Children's Laureate The Australian Children's Laureate is a role appointed to an Australian children's author and/or illustrator with the purpose of promoting the power of reading to children. It is a two-year role and was inaugurated in 2011, for the 2012–2013 pe ...

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. 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. Rippin was appointed the

for 2024–2025. In the role she will travel around Australia and promote reading. Her motto is "All kids can be readers". 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.

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 (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, (2022)

As illustrator

* ''Fang Fang's Chinese New Year'', Omnibus Books, (1996) – winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards, CBCA Award for New Illustrator, 1997

References

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