Sally Rippin

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.

, 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".

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