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Margrete Lamond Margrete Lamond i(A48616 works by)
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Norway,
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Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Margrete Lamond moved to Australia with her family when she was eight. She started writing stories at the age of five and had her first work published before she finished school. She moved to Nimbin where she lived for fourteen years, writing non-fiction books and many plays, articles and short stories for children. She then moved to Sydney and has worked as an editor at the School Magazine. She is also a freelance editor and translator of Norwegian and Swedish texts.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Paper-Flower Girl Orange : Dirt Lane Press , 2023 27198962 2023 single work children's fiction children's 'The Paper-flower Girl creates elaborate flowers out of paper, but she has few customers. When the Giant from the Hill brings her to work for him, they soon discover they want very different things. Before long, the Paper-flower Girl is forced to create things she no longer recognises as flowers. When the exasperated Giant throws her from the Hill, the Paper-flower Girl takes with her something belonging to the Giant, incorporates it into her elaborate flowers, and attains greater success than the Giant.'  

(Publication summary)
2024 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Picture Book of the Year
2024 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Picture Books
y separately published work icon Just One Bee Orange : Dirt Lane Press , 2021 23827598 2021 single work picture book children's 'Just One Bee is a story of hope, determination and never giving up: the story of One-bee and her dream to revert desolate wastes back to fields of flowers. But to change a desert to meadowland she needs to go it alone because when she comes across another bee, she discovers not only is he hoarding a single precious flower and a queen bee, but he refuses to believe positive change is possible. Other-bee does all he can to quash One-bee's dream. But One-bee’s persistence, patience and optimism eventually prove Other-bee wrong, and she shows him how dreams can come true.' (Publication summary)
2022 honour book CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Picture Book of the Year
2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Picture Book
y separately published work icon The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear Orange : Dirt Lane Press , 2017 11616451 2017 single work picture book children's

'A tale of cruelty, loyalty and love.

'Fox and Bear were true friends. They were close-as-can-be friends, through and through friends... except for one thing.

'Fox was quick and slick and sly, and Bear was dumber than a pile of rocks. But that's how it was.

'And it didn't matter. Then Fox stretched the string of friendship until it snapped and they weren't friends any more.

'The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear is the story of two friends who fall out with one another, and about what happens next. It is outrageous, passionate and poignant, and the bittersweet ending is as ambiguous as any friendship in real life.

'A mash-up of several Norwegian folk tales, The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear is told with wit and verve by Margrete Lamond, and the darkly brooding charcoal illustrations are by acclaimed artist Heather Vallance.' (Publication Summary)
2018 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books
2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
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