Born in Hawera, New Zealand, in 1949, she started writing stories as a young child. As she wrote in
St. James Guide to Children's Writers, "My first book was created when I was four years old. I had been given a notebook of blue paper, and made it into a picture book story about a mermaid." Later, at school, she continued writing stories and by the time she was ten had even added novels to her repertoire, works which her hopeful teachers sent out to publishers, but none of them sold. Though she attended a nurse's training school, Jordan was always headed for a career in writing or illustration. "From my earliest days I was also good at art," Jordan once commented.
"I began to seriously work on children's books in 1980, when I won a national competition for illustrations for my work on Joy Crowley's book The Silent One," Jordan once noted. She continued illustrating for several more years, but she finally decided writing was the one thing she loved more than anything else.
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