The Book Swap Flop: Billie B Brown #30: Volume 30
By (Author) Sally Rippin
Illustrated by Aki Fukuoka
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
5th August 2025
Australia
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Friendship stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: School stories
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods, feelings and be
Paperback
48
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
In this chapter book from beloved early-reader series Billie B Brown, Billie's favourite book finds a surprising new home at her school's book swap!
In The Book Swap Flop, Billie's school is holding a book swap to raise money for kids in hospital. Everyone brings a book and a gold coin. Billie donates her best book, but is upset to discover it is not going to the kids only the money is. How can Billie get her book back
Billie B Brown is the perfect first chapter-book series for young readers. Every down-to-earth story follows bold, brilliant Billie as she uses her imagination to tackle a new challenge, whether it's about friends, family or feelings. With her best friend, Jack, by her side, there's nothing Billie can't do!
With more than ten million books in print around the world, Billie B Brown has helped a generation of readers love learning to read. Each 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 books in the Billie B Brown series to explore!
For more wonderful series by Sally Rippin, check out the Hey Jack! and School of Monsters series.
Readers will love other books in the Billie B Brown series:
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.
Sally loves to write stories with heart featuring characters 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.