NMLP P-044227 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Little Bear

Else Holmelund Minarik (illus. Maurice Sendak) · Harper & Brothers (New York) · 1957

US precedes. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1957 is the true first, and the first title in Harper's I Can Read series. The census note "US-only" is imprecise: a UK edition followed from World's Work (Kingswood, Surrey) in 1958, but it is later and not the true first. The US Harper & Brothers issue is the edition collected.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044227 for "Little Bear" by Else Holmelund Minarik (illus. Maurice Sendak) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044227, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).