A Tree for Peter

by Kate Seredy

Book Overview

No one had ever seen big Peter before, and no one ever saw him again, and no one ever saw him at all but small Peter who lived in dingy, squalid old Shantytown. Yet it was big Peter's gift to small Peter -- a shiny toy spade with a red handle, and a small green tree lighted with tiny candles -- that caused Shantytown people to have hope again. And with new hope the grass grew, and there were gardens, and the junk heaps were cleaned up and the sagging...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670727741
• ISBN13: 9780670727742
• Release Date: January 1941
• Publisher: Viking Children's Books
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.