Shel Silverstein's children's book "The Giving Tree" is the gift that keeps on giving. Giving something, anyway. Here's the entire plot: There is a tree and there is a boy. The tree loves the boy ...

And she loved little boy. Yo, is The Giving Tree by ... his mid-life crisis, tree offers her trunk; Boy complains about being old and tired, tree is like, “I’m just a stump now because you ...

Next up, Huffington Post blogger Brian Gresko gives one of Shel Silverstein's most beloved stories a makeover in a feminist parody of The Giving Tree ... Gresko writes: "I'm too big to climb ...

A few weeks ago, rummaging around the Strand, I came across a fiftieth-anniversary edition of Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving ... tree, its top spilling off the page, and a little boy, looking ...

He starts the ball rolling with Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree: I guess that this is a pretty common target in these kinds of discussions, but damn is it ever deserved. Tree loves boy.

What if the Giving Tree said "no" to the boy? Thousands of adults online are resonating with alternate endings to classic children’s books that may not have aged well in light of modern-day ...

“Once there was a tree… and she loved a little boy.” Already getting teary remembering “The Giving Tree”? Then this isn’t going to get much easier. A aging tree on a city sidewalk in ...

Whether you loved The Giving Tree or found it profoundly disturbing, odds are you still remember the surprisingly complex story by Shel Silverstein of a boy who asks a tree to give him everything.

An anonymous person wrote on the stump words from the final passage of “The Giving Tree,” a classic children’s tale about a boy and a tree. The stump was also carved into the shape of a chair.

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. This story provides a central element, the tree, that gradually loses its parts (apples, branches, trunk) as it gives them to the boy. Tactile guidelines for ...