[1] She began her career in commercial art and advertising, including designing paper goods and book covers.
[2] She illustrated the children's book Das Mondgesicht (1960), which was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1962.
[5] In 1967, her illustrations for the book The Golden Bird won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and the Bratislava Gold Medal.
[1][6] Fromm gave many of her illustrations to the International Youth Library, where her work is held in their collection.
[10] Her fairy tales illustrations had a dream-like quality that emerged in Germany in the mid-1960s alongside other artists, including Helga Aichinger and Lieselotte Schwarz.