America Is Born: A History for Peter

America Is Born: A History for Peter is a 1959 children's history book written by American writer Gerald W. Johnson and illustrated by American artist Leonard Everett Fisher. It is the first book in the series A History for Peter, written for Johnson's grandson Peter, and covers U.S. history from the arrival of Christopher Columbus in North America to the Constitutional Convention in 1787; it was followed by America Grows Up and America Moves Forward. The book earned a Newbery Honor in 1960.