NMLP P-032819 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Monster

Walter Dean Myers (illus. Christopher Myers) · HarperCollins · 1999

The US HarperCollins 1999 hardcover is the true first — the inaugural Michael L. Printz Award winner and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Note the imprint on the true first is HarperCollins, not Amistad.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-032819 for "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers (illus. Christopher Myers) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032819, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).