NMLP P-013990 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Many Moons

James Thurber (text); Louis Slobodkin (illustrations) · Harcourt, Brace and Company · 1943

The US true first is the 1943 Harcourt, Brace issue. A later edition was re-illustrated by Marc Simont (1990); that is a separate 'first thus' and is not the medal-winning first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-013990 for "Many Moons" by James Thurber (text); Louis Slobodkin (illustrations) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-013990, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).