Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard

Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard was born in Aarhaus, Denmark in 1972. She graduated from the Danish School of Design's illustration program in 2002 and studied at Akademia Sztuk Pieknich in Kraków, Poland. She has received a number of working grants and awards from the Danish Arts Foundation, including the Illustration Award 2015, and was nominated for the 2020 Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize for her illustration of Out of the Blue. She currently works and lives with her family in Bornholm, an island in the Baltic Sea.

Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard's Titles

Out of the Blue

A boy's usual routine is shaken up by the sudden appearance of a bear in Out of the Blue, an award-winning Danish picture book from author Rebecca...

Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost

A beautiful, candid picture book for children to understand what happens when a loved one begins suffering from dementia, and how best to care...