Dolphin loves Marigold and thinks she is wonderful and unique, while Star is embarrassed by Marigold's tattoos and erratic behaviour. Marigold, an avid lover of tattoos, has bipolar disorder and also has a drinking problem. Plot ġ1-year-old Dolphin and her older half-sister, 13-year-old Star, live with their mother, Marigold, in a small council flat in London. Delacorte Press published the first American edition only in 2005. īy 2001 translations had been published in Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan. Wilson and The Illustrated Mum won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers. The title is a reference to The Illustrated Man, a 1951 book of short stories by Ray Bradbury, also named for tattoos. Set in London, the first person narrative by a young girl, Dolphin, features her manic depressive mother Marigold, nicknamed "the illustrated mum" because of her many tattoos. The Illustrated Mum is a children's novel by English author Jacqueline Wilson, first published by Transworld in 1999 with drawings by Nick Sharratt.
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