NMLP P-044234 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

A Hole Is to Dig

Ruth Krauss (illus. Maurice Sendak) · Harper & Brothers (New York) · 1952

Quarter teal cloth over pictorial paper boards is recorded on both first- and second-issue copies, so cloth colour alone does not establish priority — the "Grr-r-r" is the decisive point

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044234 for "A Hole Is to Dig" by Ruth Krauss (illus. Maurice Sendak) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044234, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).