NMLP P-044297 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Big Honey Hunt
Stan & Jan Berenstain · Beginner Books / Random House (New York) · 1962
US-only true first: Beginner Books, a division of Random House, New York, 1962 — the first Berenstain Bears title. No earlier UK or foreign-language edition is documented; the census claim stands as given. Note the pre-1960 'Distributed by Random House' imprint point does NOT apply here: by 1962 Random House had acquired Beginner Books and first printings correctly read as a division of Random House.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044297 for "The Big Honey Hunt" by Stan & Jan Berenstain (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044297, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).