NMLP P-008994 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Smoky Night

Eve Bunting (illus. David Diaz) · Harcourt Brace & Company · 1994

The US Harcourt Brace 1994 edition is the true first; it won the 1995 Caldecott Medal, so the first-printing jacket predates the medal. A second printing in the same year exists with the letter line ending in B.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-008994 for "Smoky Night" by Eve Bunting (illus. David Diaz) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-008994, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).