![]() ![]() Imagine the tree had not been reduced to a lonely stump, but had been surrounded by a whole forest of other trees. ![]() Imagine that the boy hadn’t so quickly and completely discarded the apples, but rather, had planted their seeds. Here’s a conversation you might consider having with your children after reading “The Giving Tree.” Imagine that the boy were not so selfish and the tree not so selfless. ![]() Update 2019: Adam Grant writes in The New York Times that “this book should be used as a starting point for conversations about healthy behavior and healthy relationships.” It’s a story about the human condition, about giving and receiving, using and getting used, neediness and greediness, although many finer points of the story are open to interpretation. Back in 1964, Shel Silverstein wrote The Giving Tree, a widely loved children’s book written now translated into more than 30 languages. ![]()
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