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 Darwin may refer to: Common meanings * Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection * Darwin, Northern Territory, a territorial capital city i ...

, 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. , 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 (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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rippin, Sally Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Australian children's writers Australian illustrators 21st-century Australian women writers