The Giving Tree 40th Anniversary Edition Book with CD

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Summary: Insight to the human spirit
Review: I read this book many years ago and have never forgotten it.I think the athor is teaching us about unconditional love.This is the kind of love our lord had for us.This book is an example of how we should live our lives and this would be a better place. I really need an adress i can write the author if that is possible please contact me at 8420 S Bryant Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73149. My Husband and I are Starting an organization to help people in need and we would like to name this non profit organization the giving tree.I think we would need the permission of the author to use this name.This book inspired us that this is what we need to do.This book teaches us to give and help people and recieve nothing in return. Please help me.Thank you Carolynn Ensey

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Summary: Should be re-named The Selfish Boy
Review: I am the biggest fan of Silverstein, except for this book. The tree gives and gives selflessly and the boy takes and takes. The tree is abused by the boy in a sense, and he just takes it. It's not a message I would want to send to my children.

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Summary: Teaches children about the stages of life
Review: The various stages of life are shown in this book. It follows the boy from childhood to old age. He has a pecular relationship with a tree that is happy to help him.

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Summary: Unselfish love
Review: I find the story the Giving Tree to be a tale of unselfish love. I know it seems as though all the boy does is take, take take. Maybe Shel Silverstein wrote this book to make us realize that sharing equally is what is important. I think the simple drawings are perfect for a not so simple lesson

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Summary: Moral?
Review: This is a story about one pathetic tree, and one mind-bogglingly selfish boy. I'm shocked that anyone thinks this is a good book. The only moral I could find in the story was that it's a lesson about what happens to your dignity if you refuse to say "no." That tree had no idea when to cut its losses, and there's nothing redeeming about that.

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Summary: A genuine classic
Review: In even the simplest of life's challenges, no gift should go unnoticed. A truly classic expression of what selfless sharing and the joy it gives to the giver and the receiver is all about. A MUST READ (and re-read) for adults and children alike!

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Summary: great book
Review: the book the giving tree is a great book. I highly recommend this book to little kids like 4 and older. I read it and im in sixth grade. To add to that my dad read it he said it was one the greatest picture book he ever read. My favorite part in the book is when he cuts down the tree to make a house and then a canoe. My teacher also read it and he also recommended this book to me and the lower grades like first second and so on grades.

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Summary: A Test
Review: A tree is an age-old symbol of unconditional giving. It shades, feeds, endures... Love endures all things. I really pity the folks who fail to see the goodness of this book.

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Summary: Perhaps the greatest depiction of motherhood ever written
Review: It sometimes takes simple words and simple drawings to convey extremely deep relationship issues. This story can interpreted in many different ways, yet the most common is the parallel of a mother/son relationship. Several people have commented that the theme of self-sacrifice is negative, yet in this book it is as positive as can be. A mother's love for a child is one that can be stopped by nothing. Any mother would give everything she had to make her child happy, and this book is a touching depiction of this sacrifice. It should bring tears to any mother or any son's eyes.

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Summary: ADVISE
Review: Don't get this book? Missing the morral? Ask a child.