We're Going on a Bear Hunt

UK Walker Books, London, 1989 is the true first: Walker originated and commissioned the book, both creators are British, and it took the 1989 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (overall and 0-5 division). The first American edition — Margaret K. McElderry Books (Simon & Schuster), New York, 1989 — followed in the same year, is consistently catalogued by dealers as "first American edition" rather than a first, and was a 1989 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book. Both 1989 editions are collected and should be named separately; the census claim is confirmed. Month-level precedence between the two 1989 issues is not established in the sources consulted.