Jack's School Holiday Stack: Contains 5 Hey Jack Stories!
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Jack's School Holiday Stack: Contains 5 Hey Jack Stories!
By (Author) Sally Rippin
Illustrated by Stephanie Spartels
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
28th October 2025
Australia
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
Description
Jack and his friends love school, but if there's one thing the love more, it's school holidays!
Join Jack on 5 of his best school holiday adventures in this super stack of stories.
From the Australian Children's Laureate Sally Rippin comes this fantastic and beloved first chapter-book series. Every story follows Jack, a friendly, everyday kid who loves playing with his best friend, Billie. Created to help build emotional literacy, every book in the Hey Jack! series explores a particular emotion such as worry, happiness, excitement or disappointment in a relatable way for young readers. Whether it's about friends, family or feelings, there's no challenge Jack can't figure out!
With more than 10 million books in print around the world, best-selling author Sally Rippin has helped a generation of readers love learning to read. Every Hey Jack! book is carefully designed with short chapters, decodable vocabulary and lots of illustrations, and there are no mountains of text or super-tricky words to intimidate the early reader. And there's plenty of stories in the series to explore!
For more wonderful series by Australian Children's Laureate Sally Rippin, check out the Billie B Brown and School of Monsters series.
Jack's School Holiday Stack includes 5 stories:
- Crazy Cousins
- Worst Sleepover
- Big Adventure
- Backyard Mystery
- Big Mess
Author Bio
The Australian Children's Laureate, Sally Rippin, is a best-selling and beloved author for children. Her most popular series include Billie B Brown, Hey Jack! and School of Monsters, and she has over 10 million books in print worldwide. She is also the author of one book for adults, Wild Things: How We Learn to Read and What Can Happen If We Don't.
Sallyloves to write stories with heart featuringcharacters that resonate with children and is passionate about literacy and access to stories. She travels across the world speaking with parents, teachers and librarians about how to engage struggling readers.
In 2024, Sally was named the eighth Australian Children's Laureate, a two-year appointment to promote the importance and transformational power of reading, creativity and story in the lives of young Australians.
