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Victoria Sherrow

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I began writing as a career in 1979, although my interest dates back to childhood when I loved to read and write both in school and at home. In 1978, I moved to Los Angeles and was between jobs. I had read Lee Wyndham's book on writing for children with the thought of doing just that someday and this seemed like a good time, especially since I found out there was a conference on writing for children held in L.A. each year. I attended one, where I learned some basics of how to market and submit work. Then I just started writing.

My first stories were rejected, but I kept at it and sold a story to Highlights about a year after I began, and I kept practicing and working on it until I sold a few more stories, then a picture book in 1981, but th...more

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Books by Victoria Sherrow

Average rating: 3.69 · 89 ratings · 23 reviews · 109 distinct works

	Wilma Rudolph 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Chipmunk At Hollow Tree Lane (Smithsonian's Backyard Series) by Victoria Sherrow, Allen Davis 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Benjamin Franklin 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Scholastic History Readers 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane [With Read-Along Cassette] by Victoria Sherrow, Allen Davis (Illustrator), Alexi Komisar (Narrated by) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Way People Live: Life in a Medieval Monastery 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Phillis Wheatley 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Phillis Wheatley 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	The Big Book of U.S. Presidents by Victoria Sherrow, Bill Prosser (Illustrator) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	The Righteous Gentiles (Holocaust Library 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating: