NMLP P-010451 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Little Island

Golden MacDonald (pseudonym of Margaret Wise Brown); Leonard Weisgard (illustrations) · Doubleday & Company · 1946

The US true first is the 1946 Doubleday trade issue under the Golden MacDonald pseudonym. Critically, the Junior Literary Guild book-club issue also bears the 'FIRST EDITION' statement, so that wording alone does not prove a trade first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-010451 for "The Little Island" by Golden MacDonald (pseudonym of Margaret Wise Brown); Leonard Weisgard (illustrations) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-010451, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).