Margrete Lamond began her trade-publishing career at Scholastic Press in 2002, where she built an award-winning list. Publisher at Little Hare Books/Hardie Grant Egmont since 2006, Margrete’s focus is quality picture-books, for which her internaionally acclaimed authors and illustrators continue to win awards.
Margrete is also a published author, most notably of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,Tatterhood and Other Feisty Folktales, the Once Upon a Timeless Tale series and, most recently, a re-imagined Nutcracker.
Margrete’s special interests include visual literacy, emotion in illustration, and evolutionary approaches to the aesthetics of picture-book illustration.