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Summary: A touching story about relationships.
Review: I think, what the author is saying, is that no matter how little we have, we have the capability of giving to others and improving their lives. Also, no matter how much we may seem to have we always need others; their kindness and love. Sometimes the simplelest act of kindness can change a person forever.
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Summary: Friendship and giving are very important to our lives!
Review: Silversteins "The Giving Tree" is a beautiful story about friendship and giving. It teaches children the importance of friendship and why giving is good. It is a tearful story that touches that hearts of all that read it. You can't help but to read this book to your children or students.
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Summary: A wonderful story of love for another
Review: I first read this book when I about five, I LOVED it. It's a great book I'm thirteen now and still love it, I would recomend it for any small child as a present or a bed-time story or a tool for teaching selflesness, it taught me about unconditional freind-ship some thing we all need now.
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Summary: This is a story you will never forget.
Review: I first discovered Shel Silverstien and "The Giving Tree" whilst working as a camp councillor in Maine in 1992. The boy and his tree, in particular the trees love for the boy, touched a real cord in me. The story is so simple and yet so poignant.For 6 years I checked the shelves of bookshops in New Zealand and more recently Australia, but to no avail. At long last, thanks to AMAZON BOOKS, I have been able to share this story with my mum, my friends and thier children. It may sound soppy, but I cry ever time!
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Summary: Never a book so simple can touch so many.
Review: You might think I am silly, I am a 26 year old guitarist in a metal band, and in the professional wrestling biz. And if there is one thing that rarly happenes to me is something that would make me cry. One day, I was at a Walmart with a friend of mine, and as he was scanning through the Hot Wheels (he collects them), I was roamin through and decided to pick up a book that was sitting on on a rack near the board games aisle, that one is none other than "The Giving Tree". So so I decided to scam through it then somehow I started to carefully read it. Then those words and pictures started to touch me. I finished reading it and went home. That book was in my mind for a good long while. Then as I came in to this website, and read those reviews about a book so beutiful I started to cry. That story is a type of vision I cannot shake off. This is the most touching book I have ever read. Something so simple, but yet it touched this Gen Xer pro wrestler. Get this book, I guarantee it will touch you.
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Summary: A wonderful gift for a young child!
Review: I received this book as a child and found it compelling. Now that I am an adult I plan to pass this book on to my own children because it is an excellent lesson of consideration and love.
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Summary: An ideal book for American Sign Language storytelling
Review: My very first book that I finally be able to related to the nature. The Giving Tree is my all time favorite book since I was nine years old. It has been more than twenty years ago! When I first read that book in my dental waiting room and it has been haunted me for a long time. Not long ago until few years ago when I was so rejoiced to see it on the bookshelves at the bookstore once again. Naturally, I bought it for my reading project for the purpose of my bilingual approach in American Sign Language storytelling. That book is an ideal visual aspect to see how the tree felt and how the boy turned out from youth to old man. It is so beautiful for me to use American Sign Language (ASL) along with beautiful art work book. Deaf children love it! Naturally, I am Deaf and ASL user. Deaf children love to retelling in ASL version! I truly want to thank the author who wrote a story like this!
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Summary: Excellent reading for all ages!!
Review: Not only does this book teach children (and some adults) that to give is better than to receive, it also reminds us of the boundless limits of love. Hats off to Shel Silverstein for creating such a beautiful story. Not only do I read this to my children, I also have given copies to friends and family to read to their children (or themselves).
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Summary: FOCUS ON LOVE NOT SELFISHNESS
Review: Despite others who seem to believe this book is about a selfish little boy, it is truly about an unselfish tree who loves unconditionally even after it is cut down. The tree as a Christ-figure and the boy as a representation of humanities selfishness? Probably. The point is that we need to love unconditionally, even when we are cut down, and not become bitter and selfish ourselves, but to keep on GIVING AND LOVING.
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Summary: multiple meanings
Review: The tree was a metaphor: a parents' unconditional love for their child. That, I believe, was Mr. Silverstein's lesson, a book to be enjoyed by the child, understood when they grew up to become a parent.
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