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Billie B Brown #5
Billie B. Brown The Extra Special Helper
Billie's class is on a field trip to the zoo, and Billie's job is helper. If only everyone would listen to her!
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First published August 1, 2010
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Sally Rippin
785 books224 followersSally Rippin was born in Darwin, but grew up mainly in South-East Asia. As a young adult she lived in China for three years, studying traditional Chinese painting. Sally has over seventy books published, many of them award-winning, including two novels for young adults. Her most recent work includes the highly acclaimed children’s novel Angel Creek and the popular Billie B Brown books, which became the highest selling series for 6-8 year olds in Australia within the first year of their release. Sally is Australia’s highest selling female author and her Billie B Brown books have sold more than 4.5 million copies in 14 languages.
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. She is a passionate ambassador for the 100 Story Building creative writing centre for marginalized youth and has mentored many emerging writers and illustrators. 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.
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. She is a passionate ambassador for the 100 Story Building creative writing centre for marginalized youth and has mentored many emerging writers and illustrators. 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.
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February 11, 2021
Billie B Brown
The Extra-special Helper
By Sally Rippin
Billie B Brown and her classmates go on an excursion to the zoo. Ms Walton picks Bille B Brown to be the extra-helper, mainly because Billie B Brown is bossy. Ms Walton has a group and Billie B Brown has a group and everyone is armed with clipboards as they move through the zoo writing down which category the animals belong in, warm-blooded or cold. However Billie B Brown is just realising she would very much like to be with the other kids joining in, instead of having so much responsibility. Walking through the zoo, we have lizards, tortoises, crocodiles, dolphins, monkeys (which are Billie B Browns favourite) lions, tigers, giraffes, butterflies. Now a couple of things happen along the way, be interesting to see what Billie B Brown discovers.
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This book teaches the child about "chapter reading". Big clear words and each page is finished off in a sentence which made the story, clear, precise, clean and tidy, so there is no confusion for the child. Occassionly there is a word in bold. To keep the interest up there were little illustrations almost on every page. Very educational I thought and was quite surprised when reading about warm and cold blooded animals. I actually bought this book for my grand daughter, with her being the adventurous type and I wanted her to be introduced to a more modern version of Edin Blyton. I was absolutely pleased no end with this book.
The Extra-special Helper
By Sally Rippin
Billie B Brown and her classmates go on an excursion to the zoo. Ms Walton picks Bille B Brown to be the extra-helper, mainly because Billie B Brown is bossy. Ms Walton has a group and Billie B Brown has a group and everyone is armed with clipboards as they move through the zoo writing down which category the animals belong in, warm-blooded or cold. However Billie B Brown is just realising she would very much like to be with the other kids joining in, instead of having so much responsibility. Walking through the zoo, we have lizards, tortoises, crocodiles, dolphins, monkeys (which are Billie B Browns favourite) lions, tigers, giraffes, butterflies. Now a couple of things happen along the way, be interesting to see what Billie B Brown discovers.
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This book teaches the child about "chapter reading". Big clear words and each page is finished off in a sentence which made the story, clear, precise, clean and tidy, so there is no confusion for the child. Occassionly there is a word in bold. To keep the interest up there were little illustrations almost on every page. Very educational I thought and was quite surprised when reading about warm and cold blooded animals. I actually bought this book for my grand daughter, with her being the adventurous type and I wanted her to be introduced to a more modern version of Edin Blyton. I was absolutely pleased no end with this book.
November 5, 2015
Being teacher's helper doesn't necessarily mean being teacher's pet, and Billie B (is for Bossy!) needs to rein in her energy sometimes - especially in regards to telling everyone else what to do. I loved the stack of clipboards in this one because...well just because I love a good stack of clipboards. I got worried there for a bit when one went missing. Whew!
March 31, 2024
Damn everyone really left my girl behind like that.
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November 23, 2021A fun Billie book to bring back memories of school excursions, with a little learning sneaked in when Billie has to label animals as cold or warm-blooded.
As ever, Billie and best friend Jack have a falling out (this time because Billie is issuing orders to the other students), but they always make up in the end. With such opposite personalities, they make a great team!
To be honest, I don't think Billie was too bossy; after all, she was put in charge, and she's a force of nature in any situation!
A note: This book features one of my pet peeves: mixing up the terms "every day" and "everyday". It's a mistake that turns up throughout the books in this series.
As ever, Billie and best friend Jack have a falling out (this time because Billie is issuing orders to the other students), but they always make up in the end. With such opposite personalities, they make a great team!
To be honest, I don't think Billie was too bossy; after all, she was put in charge, and she's a force of nature in any situation!
A note: This book features one of my pet peeves: mixing up the terms "every day" and "everyday". It's a mistake that turns up throughout the books in this series.
June 26, 2018
UPDATE 6/26/18: Jack notices that Billie is lost but then her clipboard is lost too and no one else knows that they were gone and it's funny because Billie did what the teacher didn't want anybody else to do.
Billie's class is going to the zoo. Billie is called to be the class's helper. She brings the clipboards and she walks at the end of the line to make sure no one gets left behind, but while she's thinking about whether the sea animals are warm-blooded or cold-blooded, she gets left behind! Jack realizes that she was left behind and the class didn't realize that they were gone. Billie learned that she could think if it was warm-blooded or cold-blooded WHILE walking so she could not get left behind again. She realized at the end that some animals are warm-blooded and cold-blooded.
Billie's class is going to the zoo. Billie is called to be the class's helper. She brings the clipboards and she walks at the end of the line to make sure no one gets left behind, but while she's thinking about whether the sea animals are warm-blooded or cold-blooded, she gets left behind! Jack realizes that she was left behind and the class didn't realize that they were gone. Billie learned that she could think if it was warm-blooded or cold-blooded WHILE walking so she could not get left behind again. She realized at the end that some animals are warm-blooded and cold-blooded.
July 23, 2018
I read this to my 6 year old daughter who is entering 1st grade. I appreciate the short length of the book as she will probably be reading this independently this year and the length won't frustrate her. It is easy for her to understand and has a lesson which is nice.
May 16, 2019
My 4 year old daughter picked this book out at the library. I didn't realize it at the time that this book is for older kids. Its a chapter book with hardly any pictures. She was bored after the first few pages. So, if anyone is interested in this book. It may be best to get it for older kids.
July 4, 2016
6-Sally Rippin, “Billie B Brown: The Extra-Special Helper” (Prahran, Victoria, Aust: Hardie Grant Egmont, 2010).
“They look at the lizards and tortoises and crocodiles.” (p23)
“They look at the lions and tigers and the long-necked giraffes.” (p30)
The 'Billie B Brown' series by Australian author Sally Rippin is a wonderful set of books helping young kids acknowledge and deal with their range of emotions that arise from various childhood predicaments. These books reinforce the positive outcome of good decision making.
“They look at the lizards and tortoises and crocodiles.” (p23)
“They look at the lions and tigers and the long-necked giraffes.” (p30)
The 'Billie B Brown' series by Australian author Sally Rippin is a wonderful set of books helping young kids acknowledge and deal with their range of emotions that arise from various childhood predicaments. These books reinforce the positive outcome of good decision making.
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September 30, 2014J PBK R Beginning beginning chapter book. Billie is a special helper in school.
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