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Summary: A Wonderful book about a boy and a tree
Review: My daughter loves this book. When she read it to me I got a little misty. Shel not only speaks to children in his books but reminds the adults what being a child was like. This book was introduced to my daughter by her first grade teacher. For a child who had trouble reading to be so interested with his books is a blessing.
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Summary: Great for all ages.
Review: "The Giving Tree" is a wonderful piece of literature for all ages. This is not just for the children, but there are lessons in it for all age groups. The child in us sees the story as just a tree and a child. However, the adult reader can apply this to real life relationships and can identify with both the boy and the tree at different points in our lives.
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Summary: made me cry with joy
Review: this book amazed me at the way it almost was real. like a mother doing for her child. it was truly an outstanding book that i as a parent will cherish and hand down to my child.
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Summary: Provocative
Review: Indeed, Shel Silverstein has left little clue as to his intent in telling this story, allowing us to take it as we read it, and interpret it no doubt relative to who we are.There was a symposium on the book which I found with a web search. It offers insights I'd probably never have seen, and really opened my eyes to the broad implications this story has. Not all the lessons are nice and sweet and lovely - some are dark and ominous. All are worth reading, and all contribute to my appreciation of the message(s) from The Giving Tree.
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Summary: The way I see it.
Review: My name is Adrienna Grace Knox, and I am 17 years old. I give Shel Silverstein all the honor that I have. He was a great man. No, he didn't rescue a damsel in distress, save the world, or become President of the United States. But in a sense, he did save the world. He gave us eyes to see from a different point of view. We haven't lost our stump if we ourselves become stumps. That is the ephemerality. That is what lives. I just wish I could have simply shaken his hand. The true measure of life is how long you exist after you're gone. -Garth Brooks-
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Summary: My first grade memory
Review: I give Shel Silverstein all the honor that I have. We have lost a great man. I am 17, and graduating this year. When I was in first grade, we performed this book in a skit. That has stayed with me ever since then, and it always will. I just wish I could have simply shaken his hand.
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Summary: amazing, touching and wonderful
Review: I first read this book as a young boy and was always drawn back to it. I t wasn't until I was in my mid-20's, when I happeneded upon it in a bookstore and bought a fresh copy, that i realized what the author was saying. i remember reading in the bookstore and crying at the end. It was the first book i gave my daughter and we sit and read it over and over. She asks questions about the tree and I do my best to explain it to her. Mr. Silverstein has given us a wonderful gift, a story open to interpreation and lush in its simplicity. Truly a treasure.
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Summary: Deeply powerful
Review: I had read and treasured The Giving Tree as a child, but I had largely forgotten it when I discovered a copy in a children's book store last year. I picked it up and showed it to my friend. "Look," I said. "I remember this book. What a cute story it was." We read it together, in the bookstore, for the first time in many years. I nearly cried. What I remembered as a cute and slightly silly children's story is in fact an extraordinarily powerful parable of life and faith. The wisdom and simple power of this book still holds, even after all these years. We have lost a very fine author who wrote some of the greatest children's books in our language.
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Summary: word by word, picture by picture - the most touching book
Review: 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.
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Summary: the book is very very good.
Review: I like this book because I have this book at home and I read it every day. And also I like this book because I like the boy that plays with the tree all of his live. When the boy needed money the tree gave him his apples for money. And when the boy gets old and the tree had nothing to give him all the boy wanted to do is to sit.
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