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Wednesday, April 30, 2014 10:59:24 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Billie B Competition!:
Sally said, "Billie B Brown has a new series, Billie B Mysteries and YOU could win the chance to star in the next book!Billie, her bestie Jack and a group of their buddies are solving mysteries at school and around the neighbourhood and they need your help!Use..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:38:24 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Code Breakers - Billie Mystery 2:
Sally said, "One thing you may not know about me is that I used to be a detective. From about seven to nine years old, my friends and I kept a faithful watch over our neighbourhood, to make sure things were running just the way they should. At this time, I was..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:38:24 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Happy New Year and Five Non-Resolutions:
Sally said, "So, everyone knows how hard it can be to keep New Year's resolutions. You wake up on the first of Jan, full of good intentions and determined to do things differently, but more often than not the most ambitious of those resolutions have well and..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:38:23 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Playground Detectives - Billie B Mystery Number Three!:
Sally said, "I've had a few enquiries lately about the release date for the next Billie Mystery so thought I should put a little sneak peek up here.Billie and her friends have a brand new Secret Mystery Clubhouse, high up in the apple tree. Now they just need a..." more
Saturday, September 7, 2013 6:43:34 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled 100 Story Building* launch:
Sally said, "A great deal of people have crazy, beautiful dreams, but very few of them have the tenacity or enthusiasm to actually realise them. Yesterday, many years of hard work came together in one glorious moment when the 100 Story Building's actual building..." more
Friday, September 6, 2013 3:43:26 AM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Sydney bound:
Sally said, "Next week I will be at the Sydney Writers Festival as a part of the Schools Program and then running a workshop on Writing For Children on the 25th. At the festival I will be mainly talking to upper primary children, but for any Billie B Brown and..." more
Friday, September 6, 2013 3:43:26 AM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Mysteries!:
Sally said, "I've been holding off sharing this exciting news for as long as possible but have finally received the go-ahead to spill the beans. So here it is! A brand new Billie B Brown series - for older readers!Over the last couple of years, I have been..." more
Friday, September 6, 2013 3:43:26 AM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Winter days and meditation with elephants:
Sally said, "As the weather grows colder I am bunkering down with my laptop, busy with work. Over the long weekend I finally finished the first draft of Book Four of my contribution to the Our Australian Girl series. I have loved writing Lina and feel..." more
Friday, September 6, 2013 3:43:26 AM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Billie B Brown Treasury!:
Sally said, "Here is a little treat for any Billie B Brown fans, which will arrive just in time for Christmas. A hardback full colour collection of ten Billie stories! I have only seen the cover so far, and a sneak peek of a few of Aki's illustrations in colour..." more
Friday, September 6, 2013 3:43:26 AM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled A Little Varuna Magic:
Sally said, "Well, it's been a long time since I've picked up a pencil to draw - years in fact, as I have been so very busy tapping away on my computer for the last three or four years. I have had a beautiful manuscript in my bottom drawer for a long time,..." more
Friday, September 6, 2013 3:43:26 AM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Aki in Melbourne!:
Sally said, "I am very excited to let you know that the fabulous Aki Fukuoka, illustrator of the Billie B Brown series, will be in Melbourne for one very busy week in August. She will be joining me at the Melbourne Writers Festival to help launch Spooky..." more
Sunday, April 28, 2013 6:31:34 AM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Autumn travels:
Sally said, "I have just recently returned from two weeks of school visits in Singapore and Malaysia where I was thrilled to discover that the Billie and Jack books have already found themselves a little following over there! This was partly due to the brilliant..." more
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 4:41:21 AM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Hey Jack - the risk taker.:
Sally said, "I realise I have neglected Jack a little on this blog, forgetting to mention when a new book appears on the shelves like this one on the left, which has been out in bookstores since the start of February. Perhaps this is because Jack is a harder..." more
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7:16:00 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Lina is launched!:
Sally said, "Cam's Cafe at the Abbotsford Convent has never looked busier or brighter as it did this Sunday past. The rain stopped, just as I'd asked, and dozens of young girls and their families crammed into the cafe to celebrate Our Australian Girls old and..." more
Thursday, March 14, 2013 11:19:51 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Learning to Read:
Sally said, "If you were fortunate, you will have essentially picked up reading by osmosis like I did. I was a voracious reader and, as a result, found writing, spelling and communication easy and accessible. My two eldest sons picked up reading in much the same..." more
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:20:09 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled The End of Summer:
Sally said, "Today is the last day of summer and even though it's been a hot and dry one, I always feel a little sad to see it end. The long cicada-filled evenings, picnics by the creek and lost days on the beach - I find everything about summer so languid..." more
Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:12:21 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled The Story of my Book:
Sally said, "The Story of my Book – Sally Rippin on Our Australian Girl: Meet Lina.From the Readings blog Feb 7, 2013There is an imaginary laneway off Rathdowne Street, probably not far from the Readings Carlton store, where, fifty-seven years ago,..." more
Thursday, February 7, 2013 9:52:15 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Party!:
Sally said, "Champagne, cupcakes, charm bracelets! What more could you want? Come! It will be fun, I promise!Here are the details if you can't read the invite:3 - 5pm, Sunday March 17thSt Heliers Street Store, Abbotsford ConventRSVP by March 10 to..." more
Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:10:07 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Happy not-so-new year and other lovely things:
Sally said, "I don't know about you, but I always feel like my year begins properly on the first of February, rather than the first of Jan. My kids are back at school, I can begin to get stuck into work again and start to cross things off my list of things to..." more
Sunday, January 13, 2013 8:36:04 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Faber Academy 2013:
Sally said, "I am thrilled to have been asked to run a second Writing for Children class for the Faber Academy this year. Like last year, it will be held in the Melbourne Allen and Unwin offices and participants will have the opportunity to hear from an A &..." more
Friday, December 21, 2012 7:11:11 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled She's here!:
Sally said, "A little bit of exciting news to squeeze in before Christmas. The advance copies of my first book in the Our Australian Girl series arrived this week. I am SO excited - and I can't WAIT for you to meet her! The first book comes out in February 2013..." more
Sunday, December 2, 2012 9:26:57 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Reflections on a fortunate year.:
Sally said, "Last Friday night, at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards dinner, sitting in the grand reading room of the NSW Library, I was overcome with an incredible sense of gratitude. Less than twenty years ago, when I was first starting out, the thought of..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 8:53:16 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Ghouls in the Hood:
Sally said, "There seemed to be a teensy bit of Halloween Grinchness going around Facebook last night. Seriously guys, from a kid's perspective, what is there not to love? Dressing up? Lollies? Wandering the streets with a gang of buddies on your own? (Or at..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 8:53:16 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled Waiting For Butterflies:
Sally said, "As most of you probably know by now, I am currently Writer-In-Residence at the Melbourne Zoo. Earlier this week, I was asked to turn up for a photo shoot with the meerkats for the Herald Sun, along with the three other writers involved. As..." more
Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:52:14 PM
Sally Rippin wrote a blog post titled A new year, a new story.:
Sally said, "So this blog has been very quiet of late. Life has taken over in scary, wonderful and unpredictable ways, as it is wont to do, but I feel like I am finally emerging out the other side again, a little battered and worn, but feeling excited about the..." more