This is a sweet story about an unusual defence of a little girl by a crew of little boys. Their leader (one assumes he is also the lord and master of the treehouse) refuses entry to the foreign interloper, a little girl called Sami. He ‘wins’ in the end, after his own fashion. And so does Sami.

A 12-page Reader for Grade 1, art-directed by Peter Lague, publisher for Via Afrika, Cape Town. The style is Zen Zany, one of the 21 Styles on offer.
 
Black girl, aged around 8, looking up a tree and marveling at a tree house. It is rickety but sturdy (i.e., home built, not posh shop bought). In a modest middle class suburb.
The Treehouse Bully Pg 01'Wow, a tree house!' says Sami.
Black girl, aged around 8, looking up a tree and marveling at a tree house. It is rickety but sturdy (i.e., home built, not posh shop bought). In a modest middle class suburb.
Girl is halfway up tree house ladder. Black boy looks down from up in tree house, yelling. There are several boys, white, Indian, Muslim, Jewish (these two distinguished by traditional headwear) also in the tree house.
Frowning boy, arms folded across chest. The other boys in background, look uncomfortable. They don’t like the bully.
Girl walks sadly away from the tree house.
The Muslim boy stands up inside tree house.
Boys turn on the bully and tell him he's mean. Sami in the foreground is walking away, but overhears the conversation.
Girl at bottom of the tree, looking happy/relieved.
Ben is a Jewish boy. All the boys except the bully climb down from the tree house.
Girl and boys chatting, laughing and eating crackers. Some play hopscotch on the ground
Bully very alone and solitary in his tree house, looking grumpy.
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