The Illustrated Mum
1999 novel by Jacqueline Wilson / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Illustrated Mum is a children's novel by English author Jacqueline Wilson, first published by Transworld in 1999 with drawings by Nick Sharratt. Set in London, the first person narrative by a young girl, Dolphin, features her bipolar mother Marigold, nicknamed "the illustrated mum" because of her many tattoos. The title is a reference to The Illustrated Man, a 1951 book of short stories by Ray Bradbury, also named for tattoos.
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Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
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Illustrator | Nick Sharratt |
Cover artist | Nick Sharratt |
Language | English |
Genre | Children's novel |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1999 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | |
Pages | 222 pp (first edition) |
ISBN | 0385408889 |
OCLC | 59399913 |
LC Class | PZ7.W6957 Il 2005[1] |
Preceded by | The Lottie Project |
Followed by | Lizzie Zipmouth |
Wilson and The Illustrated Mum won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers.[2][3]
By 2001 translations had been published in Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan.[4] Delacorte Press published the first American edition only in 2005.[1]