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On the bookshelf and in children’s magazines, you’ll find their work under their individual names and under the pseudonyms, Jeffie Ross Gordon and J.R. Gordon. “Language is fun. Our favorite stories are those that make young people laugh,” say Stephanie and Judy. “It’s very exciting to do a job you love and know that children everywhere love you for doing it.” And judging by their reviews and endorsements, appearance requests, and fan mail, children, teachers, librarians, and other children’s literary advocates they have met personally and through their writing, do love their work. When they aren’t writing, they can be found sharing their stories in bookstores and in schools, lecturing at conferences, workshops, and retreats to adults who want to learn to write, working as freelance readers for a eastern publishing house, or critiquing manuscripts for other children’s writers through their Ventura-based business, Writers Ink.
You can find out more about this writing duo in “Something About the Author” Volume 26, published by Gale Research. |
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Stephanie
Jacob Gordon and Judith Ross Enderle met in a writing class
at UCLA. Both saw their first published words in the pages of Highlights
for Children magazine. Since then, they’ve co-authored numerous
books for young people, including the short chapter books 
Stephanie and Judy are active in many areas of children’s writing. Both
are board members of the Society of Children’s Book Writers
and Illustrators and members of the Children’s Literature Council
of Southern California, California Readers, and the Southern California
Children’s Booksellers Association. Between them they have
six grown children, three dogs and two cats, a lot of fun, and a
lot of wacky words yet to be written! 
