{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} The '''Mother Goose Award''' was an award annually presented to "the most exciting newcomer to British children's book illustration."<ref name=brown/>
It was inaugurated in 1979 and last awarded in 1999.<ref name=cooked/> Sponsored by Books for Children booksellers, award winners received £1,000 and a gilded goose egg.<ref name="Waters">{{cite journal |last1=Waters |first1=Fiona |title=Children's Books - Articles - Awards - The Mother Goose Awards |journal=Books for Keeps |date=May 1985 |issue=32 |url=http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/32/childrens-books/articles/awards/awards-%E2%80%93-the-mother-goose-award-the-guardian-award-the |access-date=21 June 2021}}</ref>
==Winners==
Twenty illustrators were recognised in 21 years. {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto" ! Year || Illustrator || Title || distinct <br />Author |- | 1979 || Michelle Cartlidge || ''Pippin and Pod'' || — |- | 1980 || Reg Cartwright || ''Mr Potter's Pigeon'' || Patrick Kinmonth |- | 1981 || Juan Wijngaard || ''Green Finger House'' || Rosemary Harris |- | 1982 || Jan Ormerod || ''Sunshine'' || — |- | 1983 || Satoshi Kitamura || ''Angry Arthur'' || Hiawyn Oram |- | 1984 || Patrick Benson || ''The Hob Stories'' || William Mayne |- | 1985 || Susan Varley || ''Badger's Parting Gifts'' || — |- | 1986 ||colspan=3| (no award) |- | 1987 || P. J. Lynch || ''A Bag of Moonshine'' <br />(British folktales retold) || Alan Garner |- | 1988 || Emma Chichester Clark || ''Listen to This'' || Laura Cecil, compiler |- | 1989 || Charles Fuge || ''Bush Vark's First Day Out'' || — |- | 1990 || David Hughes || ''Strat and Chatto'' || Jan Mark |- | 1991 || Amanda Harvey || ''A Close Call'' || — |- | 1992 || Ted Dewan || ''Inside the Whale and Other Animals'' || Steve Parker |- | 1993 || Claire Fletcher || ''The Seashell Song'' || Susie Jenkin-Pearce |- | 1994 || Lisa Flather || ''Where the Great Bear Watches'' || James Sage |- | 1995 || Flora McDonnell || ''I Love Animals'' || — |- | 1996 || Bruce Ingman || ''When Martha's Away'' || — |- | 1997 || Clare Jarrett || ''Catherine and the Lion'' || — |- | 1998 || Mary Fedden || ''Motley the Cat'' || Susannah Amoore |- | 1999 || Niamh Sharkey || ''The Gigantic Turnip'' <br />(from ''The Giant Turnip'', publ. 1863) || Aleksei Tolstoy |}
==Primary sources== Records of the Mother Goose Award from 1978 to 1986 are held in the archives of the Institute of Education, University of London.<ref>{{Cite web |publisher = Institute of Education |title = Records of the Mother Goose Award |work = Archive Catalogue: Deposited Collections |url = http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=9347&9347_0=19393 |accessdate = 5 October 2008 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090123095459/http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=9347 |archivedate = 23 January 2009 }}
Materials dated 1978 to 1986.</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Children's literature}} * Kate Greenaway Medal <!-- British, illustrated book --> * Kurt Maschler Award <!-- British, new illustrator --> * Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award <!-- ? Talk: Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award#American -->
==References== {{reflist |25em |refs= <ref name=brown> [https://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/mothergoose.html "Mother Goose Award"]. David K. Brown. The Children's Literature Awards Page. 1996. Retrieved 12 September 2008. With award winners 1979 to 1996.</ref> <ref name=cooked> [http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-miscellaneous/4642895-1.html "Mother Goose is cooked for 2000"]. Retrieved 12 September 2008. {{dead link |date=June 2012}}</ref> }}
Category:British children's literary awards Category:Illustrated book awards Category:Awards established in 1979 Category:1979 establishments in the United Kingdom Category:Awards disestablished in 1999 Category:1999 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
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