The Night Fright

Billie B Brown #18

by Sally Rippin

In this gorgeous story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie B Brown goes to the movies! In The Night Fright, Billie loves hanging out with Rebecca's older sisters. They make her feel so grown-up! But is Billie grown-up enough to handle the scary movies they like? Written by the Australian Children’s Laureate Sally Rippin, Billie B Brown is the perfect first chapter-book series. 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 Australian Children’s Laureate Sally Rippin, check out the Hey Jack! and School of Monsters series.Readers will love other books in the Billie B Brown! The Bad ButterflyThe Soccer StarThe Midnight FeastThe Best Day EverThe Snow DayThe Wonderful Wedding and many more!

Genres: Childrens, Chapter Books

Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2012

About the author

Sally 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.
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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.

Reviews

[Stef Rozitis · Rating 3 out of 5]

There was nothing wrong with it as such. Apparently my 6 year old niece can't get enough of these. Nothing happens. All characters are female (which would be cool except it's because nothing much happens and we are stuck in a domestic little cocoon of non-events). It's innocent, it's bland, it's definately marketed toward the sort of femininities I don't subscribe to, but in a gentle way that isn't all about image or running after boys at least.

It won't kill your daughter. It won't change her life. I think there are much better books and series out of there but at least it wasn't offensive. The level is probably about right for junior primary. It took me about 10 minutes to read (as it would anyone over 12)

NB- when I say all characters are female there is a baby brother who briefly appears and a offhand mention that all the girls have fathers in the background so I don't mean seperatist lesbian feminist stuff I mean the boring female sphere firmly within the heterosexual matrix

[Juliet Sampson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I gave this book three stars instead of four as I just read The Midnight Feast and rated it four. I did prefer The Midnight Feast Story over The Night Fright. Both of them were about Billie being scared in some way but give the book a chance you may have a different opinion. I am going to read some more in the series.

[Sonya Bright]

Billie wants to prove she’s not little anymore, but this scary movie is probably a step too far!

I liked that Billie sees her friend’s older sisters and their behaviour in a different way to how an adult would. She’s so busy trying to impress them she almost loses sight of who she is.

The ending was great. Billie might not be fully grown-up yet, but there’s always someone younger!

There’s no Jack in this instalment, but I really appreciated seeing Billie’s girl friends getting on instead.

[Jill Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Billie B Brown is buzzing with excitement. She's going to the movies with her friend Rebecca and her two older sisters. The older girls want to go to see a scary picture and Billie agrees because she doesn't want to look like a frightened little kid.

She tells her mum she had a great time. Billie's mum is surprised they saw a scary movie. That night Billie has a nightmare and she goes to sleep with her parents. Her mum says no more scary movies.

At school, Rebecca tells Billie she had a bad dream and went to sleep with her parents. They decide to see something they both like on video at Billies place.

Sally Rippin writes great stories for early readers.

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Billie and her friend from school went to a movie theater with her friend's two older sisters. They watched a movie about a haunted house, and it made Billie have nightmares. She lied to her friend at school the next day and said that she loved the movie when she actually didn't. She didn't really like it that much at all. But she said that she loved scared movies before the movie started, but she was lying that time too. She told her mom that she watched a scary movie. Her mom told her not to watch any more scary movies.

[Mahyla · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read these aloud to my 6 (just turned 7) year old and this one made her nervous that she was going to get nightmares, so I read this one as if the ghost was fun and silly. Not my favorite out of the series!

[Laurel Pate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Always tell the truth you never know your friend might be going through the same thing.

[Elizabeth Mun · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think it was spooky! Billie watched a scary movie and it gave her a nightmare.

[Holly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book so much because I like haunted things and movies.

[Kara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I relate to Billie and her friend giggling during the middle of a scary movie so hard

[Katharine Peddie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have chosen this book because it is from the Billie B Brown series. This series of books was created for emergent readers and follows the introduction of chapter reading. I would recommend this book for year 1 and year 2 students. It is a great series that does not follow the conventional girl story. This is about a feisty tom-boy, so a change from the regular princesses.

The Billie B Brown series also has a dedicated web page that would allow us to do some follow through in the classroom with some great activities at http://www.billiebbrown.com/index_mai...

In this book the font is large and the chapters are short which makes it easy to read and follow. It also has some great illustrations to help those imaginative juices to flow, and the best part is if we are focusing on adjectives as part of literacy, there is a highlighted adjective on almost every page to help set the mood of that particular sentence for example: "It looks like they are coming out of the screen! Billy SQUEALS and covers her eyes". What a great way to draw attention to important constructive words in a sentence.

Fright night is about Billie B Brown and her friend Rebecca going off to the movies with Rebecca's older sisters. Billy does not want to show them that she is scared of scary movies and puts on a brave face. So they watch the scary movie and have a wonderful time, Billie tells her mom about the movie and how brave she was to watch and that she is a big girl now who does not have nightmares as a repercussion of watching a scary movie, but is Billie really old enough to have watched a scary movie, you will have to read it to find out more.......

[Andy Hickman · Rating 3 out of 5]

17-Sally Rippin, “Billie B Brown: The Night Fright” (​​Prahran, Victoria, Aust: Hardie Grant Egmont, 2012).
“'My favourite movie is Finding Nemo.'” (p40)

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.

[Alexis Munk · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book goes hand-in-hand with the midnight feast. This book really shows how younger children try to do things older siblings or friends do but find out that they might still be too young. Trying to watch a scary movie with older friends is a classic. My little sister even tried to do that with me and my friends but ended up having my mom come pick her up because she was too scared.

[Fleur Ferris · Rating 5 out of 5]

My girls churned through this series and read every single book over the school holidays. They said this one was REALLY good!