NMLP P-020653 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Runaway Bunny

Margaret Wise Brown (illustrated by Clement Hurd) · Harper & Brothers (New York) · 1942

Harper & Brothers (New York) is the true first. Clement Hurd, dissatisfied with his original art, redrew his illustrations for a revised edition issued by Harper & Row in 1972; that revised edition is a separate 'first thus' and not the true first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-020653 for "The Runaway Bunny" by Margaret Wise Brown (illustrated by Clement Hurd) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-020653, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).