Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard

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Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard is a well-established Danish illustrator. She trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Design and Akademia Sztuk Pieknich in Poland. She has illustrated many books and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Danish Ministry of Culture Illustrator Award. Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost, her first book to be published in the United States, received many glowing reviews and was a 2022 finalist for the prestigious Kirkus Prize in the Young Readers’ category, as well as a 2022 Batchelder Honor Book. She lives with her family on Bornholm, a small island in the Baltic Sea.

TITLES

Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost
 Out of the Blue