A Tree for Peter

Peter, a fatherless, lame boy living in a literal Shantytown, meets a homeless man, Peter King, who gives the boy a spade and helps him to see the possibilities of their modest surroundings in A Tree for Peter, a novel by Kate Seredy (originally published in 1941). Seredy also provides sepia-tone full-page illustrations that neither glamorize nor downplay the boy's plight. .