NMLP P-042747 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
The Lion & the Mouse
Jerry Pinkney · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (New York) · 2009
The decisive jacket point is chronological: the book was published in September 2009 and the Caldecott Medal was not announced until January 2010, so the first-printing jacket carries NO Caldecott medal printed on the front panel — dealers describe first-printing copies specifically as having no award medal on the jacket
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-042747 for "The Lion & the Mouse" by Jerry Pinkney (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042747, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).