The Mother Goose Award was an award annually presented to "the most exciting newcomer to British children's book illustration.
[2] Sponsored by Books for Children booksellers, award winners received £1,000 and a gilded goose egg.
[3] Twenty illustrators were recognised in 21 years.
Records of the Mother Goose Award from 1978 to 1986 are held in the archives of the Institute of Education, University of London.
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