Mary GrandPré

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Mary GrandPré is an American illustrator, best known for her work on the US version of the Harry Potter books. She resides in Sarasota, Florida with her family.

GrandPré works with pastels in a style she calls "soft geometry." In addition to the Harry Potter series, she has illustrated picture books including Pockets, Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat, Vegetables Go to Bed, The Thread of Life, Swing Around the Sun, The Sea Chest, and Sweep Dreams. She also illustrated Plum, and Henry and Pawl and the Round Yellow Ball, which was co-written by her husband, Tom Casmer.

A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Mary GrandPré has created images for advertising and magazines as well as children's books, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Wall Street Journal. Among her other famous works, she was commissioned to illustrate the official poster for the 2005 Minnesota State Fair.

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