Sally Rippin

Author

Sally Rippin has over sixty books published, many of them award-winning, including two novels for young adults. In 2015, Sally was Australia's highest selling female author and her Billie B Brown books have sold more than 3 million copies since first published. Sally is a popular presenter in schools and at literary festivals both in Australia and overseas and has a regular program on 3RRR interviewing children's authors and industry professionals. Recently, she and her partner co-founded Story Peddlers, a hand-made performance tent that packs away into a custom-built bike, with the aim of bringing back the art of the roving storyteller. She published Fiona Harris and Scott Edgar's series, Super Moopers, in 2017 with Sally Rippin Presents. Sally released the first book in her new series, Polly and Buster, in June 2017, which has been shortlisted for awards with the Australian Independent Bookseller, the Australian Children's Book Council and the Australian Book Industry Awards.