The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Giving Tree
Book Review: total devotion
Summary: 5 Stars
The tree gives the child everything and is left with nothing. It's total
devotion that's kind of depressing.
Book Review: true meaning
Summary: 5 Stars
To those who give this one star - you assume that all children will identify with the boy and replicate his actions as acceptable behavior. I know I have always identified with the tree. I personally think it was a children's book written with a philosophical adult audience in mind. It is a book that cannot just be read as is. It must be read and then discussed as to the deeper meaning of the story...the part of the story that is not written but must be taught and learned. If you can successfully convey the underlying message this book brings to light, your children will be be better people.Book Review: wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a book is a must have for your child's book collection. a wonderful, heartwarming story about giving. I have to admit I cry every time I read it!Book Review: word by word, picture by picture - the most touching book
Summary: 5 Stars
As i have read here, i can see this book affected me like it has so many others. I first read it as late teen-ager, and have read it numerous times since. Each and every time, it is difficult for my wife or I to get to the end without tears in our eyes. We have also given it as a gift, or introduced it to others. A simple book with a hundred messages. - From boy to man we go from enjoyment and appreciation of simple things, and easy gifts of love, to the belief in the "need" of ever more complex things and demands that only make us more desperate, more saddened, and more caught in the illusion of what love, and life, truly is - in a world in which we are told that "taking" and "getting" and "expanding" and "acquiring" is our path to happiness - when it is the opposite that is true.
What happens in the book happens around us in life every day. Maybe "The Giving Tree" can help us overcome this - and return to the life of the little boy in a big tree.
We will miss you, and your worlds, Shel Silverstein.