![]() ![]() I won’t give away the ending but it’s poignant and tender and the more I think about it, really sad for a children’s story. ![]() Although the tree willingly gives to the boy, he never seems to be fulfilled and she grows increasingly sadder. The tree loves the little boy and gives everything she can. The story is about a little boy who loves a tree and as he grows he asks for more and more things from the tree. ![]() But I haven’t yet and this makes writing a review a little more difficult than usual. I realize that in this Internet age with sites like Wikipedia and Amazon and any number of blogs and review sites, I *should* be able to figure it out. So I’ve now read it some 60-70 times, but here’s the strange thing: I’m still not quite sure what the moral of the story is. I based my decision to buy it on two things-I had a notion that it was an important book in the canon of children’s literature and I really liked the cover: a simple line drawing of a boy and a tree on a bright green background.įast forward a few months and it has become one of the three or four books that *must* be read before bedtime. I’d seen it before but never read it and thought it might be nice to read to my children. Not so long ago, I bought The Giving Tree on a visit to a great NY bookstore. ![]()
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