A tree for Peter.
By: Written and illustrated by Kate Seredy.
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Christmas -- Juvenile fiction.; Dwellings -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Description: The story of a young boy living in a shanty town and watching how the town slowly rebuilds itself and pulls itself up by it's bootstraps. The story centers around the young child, and how his life is forever changed by an old man who plants a tree for him, but the wider story is of a group of outcasts banding together to make a better life for themselves.