- Mother Goose Award
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The Mother Goose Award was a British annual award, presented by Books For Children to "the most exciting newcomer to British children's book illustration."[1] Established in 1979, the award was last given in 1999.[2] Award winners received £1000 and a gilded goose egg.
Contents
Complete list of Winners
Year Winning Illustrator Title (Other Author) 1979 Michelle Cartlidge Pippin and Pod n/a 1980 Reg Cartwright Mr Potter's Pigeon Patrick Kinmonth 1981 Juan Wijngaard Green Finger House Rosemary Harris 1982 Jan Ormerod Sunshine n/a 1983 Satoshi Kitamura Angry Arthur Hiawyn Oram 1984 Patrick Benson The Hob Stories William Mayne 1985 Susan Varley Badger's Parting Gifts n/a 1986 Not Awarded 1987 P. J. Lynch A Bag of Moonshine Alan Garner 1988 Emma Chichester Clark Listen to This Laura Cecil 1989 Charles Fuge Bush Vark's First Day Out n/a 1990 David Hughes Strat and Chatto Jan Mark 1991 Amanda Harvey A Close Call n/a 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 n/a 1996 Bruce Ingman When Martha's Away n/a 1997 Clare Jarrett Catherine and the Lion n/a 1998 Mary Fedden Motley the Cat Susannah Amoore 1999 Niamh Sharkey The Gigantic Turnip Aleksei Tolstoy Primary sources
The records of the Mother Goose Award, 1878–1986, are held in the Archives of the Institute of Education, University of London [3].
References
- ^ Mother Goose Award winners. Accessed September 12, 2008
- ^ Mother Goose is cooked for 2000. Accessed September 12, 2008
- ^ Institute of Education Archives, DC/MGA Mother Goose Award, http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=9347&9347_0=19393, retrieved 5 October 2008
External links
Categories:- Awards established in 1979
- British children's literary awards
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