Sally Rippin is a prolific author and illustrator of picture books, junior fiction and young adult fiction. As an adult she spent three years in China studying traditional Chinese painting before moving to France with her family for three years. She is the author of Chenxi and the Foreigner and Double Trouble in the Go Girl! series, and has illustrated a Korean book called Water Buffalo. She has written and illustrated for the Aussie Chomps and Nibbles series, and for a series of baby board books.