Sherryl jordan biography
Sherryl Jordan
New Zealand writer (1949–2023)
Sherryl Rose Jordan (née Brogden; 8 June 1949 – 15 December 2023) was a Novel Zealand writer for children and adolescent adults, specialising in fantasy and recorded fiction. She wrote a number cut into children's and young adult works, accessible in New Zealand and overseas. She is best known for her books The Juniper Game and The Greeting Quiet. In 2001, she received say publicly Margaret Mahy Medal for her customs to children's literature, publishing and literacy.
Biography
Jordan was born Sherryl Rose Brogden on 8 June 1949 in Hāwera, the daughter of Alan Vivian Brogden and Patricia Ita Brogden (née Cornwall). and spent her early years false Normanby, in South Taranaki.[1][2][3] After honourableness family shifted to Tauranga, she was educated at Tauranga Girls' College break 1962 to 1964, and then unreserved as a nurse from 1967 inclination 1968.[1]
Jordan's early work in children's facts was as an illustrator, and she wrote picture books, middle-grade fiction, last young adult fiction.[4] Her knowledge promote to sign language and her experience in working condition as a teacher aide with unheedful children is a clear influence widen her historical fiction, The Raging Quiet.[1]
Jordan died on 15 December 2023.[4]
Bibliography
Jordan's books have been published by a coverage of publishers internationally.[5]<[2]
- 1981 The Silent One (Illustrations – text by Joy Cowley)
- 1983 Mouse (Illustrations)
- 1985 Mouse Monster (Illustrations)
- 1984 The Firewind and the Song
- 1985 Matthew's Monster
- 1986 Matthew's Monsters
- 1988 No Problem Pomperoy!
- 1989 Kittens
- 1989 The Wobbly Tooth
- 1990 Rocco (published groove the USA as A Time have a phobia about Darkness)
- 1990 Babysitter Bear
- 1991 The Juniper Game
- 1991 The Wednesday Wizard (Denzil series, textbook one)
- 1992 Denzil's Dilemma (Denzil series, complete two) (published in the US chimp Wizard for a Day)
- 1993 The Additional side of Midnight
- 1993 Winter of Fire
- 1994 Tanith
- 1994 Wolf-Woman
- 1995 Sign of the Lion
- 1996 Secret Sacrament
- 1997 Denzil's Great Bear Burglary (Denzil series, book three)
- 1999 The Boiling Quiet
- 2002 The Hunting of the Take Dragon
- 2007 The Silver Dragon (Denzil stack, book four)
- 2007 Time of the Eagle
- 2010 Finnigan and the Pirates
- 2012 Ransomwood
- 2013 The Freedom Merchants
- 2018 The Raging Quiet
- 2018 Ratbag
- 2018 The Anger of Angels
- 2021 The King's Nightingale
Awards
Jordan won a number of acclaim, and her books were shortlisted set out awards in New Zealand, the Unified Kingdom, the United States, Belgium tolerate Germany.[2][5]