[3] Norah Montgomerie moved to Dundee where she worked for the Scottish publishing company DC Thomson.
In her work she promoted Scots language, traditional tales and poetry in general.
With her husband, Montgomerie collected Scottish folk songs and nursery rhymes, and edited and illustrated collections of Scottish folk songs and rhymes for children,[4] including these titles: In addition, she wrote and illustrated her own books, including The Merry Little Fox and Other Animal Tales (1959),[8] Twenty-five Fables (1962), To Read and to Tell (1964),[2] This Little Pig Went to Market: Play rhymes for infants and young children (1966, with illustrator Margery Gill),[9] and One, Two, Three: A Little Book of Counting Rhymes (1967).
[10] In 2009, a collection of her manuscripts titled The Fantastical Feats of Finn MacCoul[11] was published by her grandson Julian Brooks.
[12] In 1934, Norah Shargool married William Montgomerie, a Scottish poet and folklorist.