The Wednesday Wizard (Scholastic 2007). Secret Sacrament (Simon & Schuster 2003). The Hunting of the Last Dragon (HarperCollins 2004). Denzil’s Great Bear Burglary (Mallinson Rendel 1997). The Other Side of Midnight (illustrated by Bryan Pollard (Scholastic). The Other side of Midnight, illustrated by Bryan Pollard (Ashton Scholastic 1993). 
Denzil’s Dilemma (Ashton Scholastic 1992, published in the USA as Wizard for a Day 1996).The Wednesday Wizard (Ashton Scholastic 1991).The Juniper Game (Ashton Scholastic 1991).Babysitter Bear, illustrated by Trevor Pye (Random Century 1990 paperback Ashton Scholastic 1991).Rocco (Ashton Scholastic 1990, published in the USA as A Time of Darkness).No Problem Pomperoy, illustrated by Jan van der Voo (Century Hutchinson 1988).Matthew’s Monsters, illustrated by Deirdre Gardiner (Ashton Scholastic 1986).Mouse Monster (Shortland Publications, 1985).
Telltale (Shortland Publications, 1983). The Silent One, text by Joy Cowley (Whitcoulls 1981). Most of Sherryl’s days are spent writing, though she also enjoys tai chi, music, arts and crafts, and spending time with family and friends. A recurring theme in her books is the everyday struggle of ordinary people, who must fight against intolerance, prejudice and superstition in order to become the extraordinary men and women they were born to be. Sherryl loves writing of Medieval times, of village life influenced deeply by the seasons, by seed-time and harvest, summer and winter. All her books are expressions of her own spiritual journey through life – of her dreams, her battles, her fears and triumphs. In her books Sherryl explores what she calls the boundless spaces between fact and fantasy, the real truth and the truth we imagine. Afflicted with occupational overuse syndrome in 1989, she recovered slowly and was able to return to writing. 
Sherryl trained in sign language as part of her work as a teacher’s aide working with deaf children and this was one of the inspirations for her novel The Raging Quiet. Her 13th novel, Rocco, which won the AIM Book of the Year in 1991, proved to be a turning point, although she had been in print as an illustrator before then. Of the 27 picture books and 12 novels she wrote in her apprenticeship years, only three picture books were published. She learned her craft by attending seminars and listening to other writers through criticism and rewriting and through determination and perseverance. Sherryl Jordan’s path to publication was long and arduous.
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