Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with dark maroon stamping, 236 pages. Illustrated with sixteen full-page black and white drawings by Seredy. The dramatic and heart-warming tale is set first on an estate in Hungary near the end of WW II, and then on a farm in the Hudson Valley, New York. Young Michael of Hungary carries an acorn all the way from his castle home in Chestry Valley, Hungary, to the warm soil of the Hudson Valley farm where he makes a new home after the war. He is accepted into an American family who accept Michael as one of their own. A compelling character is Midnight, the black stallion that has been trained to perform before princes. Bright, tight copy. Lacks dust jacket.
 "The Chestry Oakby: Kate Seredy")
