As well as her usual colour work, she also produced black and white sketches to illustrate Alison Jezard's series of Albert books about a teddy bear.
Beresford provided more Womble stories in response to their popularity, and Margaret worked long hours, seven days a week to complete the accompanying illustrations for twenty books.
The demand for more Womble books meant additional illustrators were enlisted by the publisher Ernest Benn, but the definitive visual interpretation of the animals was Margaret Gordon's.
[3] In the mid-1980s, she began to both write and illustrate books, including her successful series about a mischievous bear named Wilberforce.
She was a versatile artist and excelled in both black and white line drawings, where she combined detailed backgrounds with cartoon-like simplification of the principal figures, and in coloured work.