NMLP P-021346 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles

Maud and Miska Petersham · The Macmillan Company · 1945

The US true first is the 1945 Macmillan issue. The book was revised in 1966, when two illustrations depicting Black children were dropped as offensive; revised printings carry this altered content and are not the first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-021346 for "The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles" by Maud and Miska Petersham (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-021346, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).