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The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein

4.29 AVERAGE


Great message.
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced
Loveable characters: Yes

Oh, to be loved unconditionally.
emotional reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is one of my son's nursery books. I'm rating it five stars for childhood nostalgia and because it's Shel Silverstein, but what that child did to the tree is straight disrespectful. I'm crying for a fictional cartoon tree...

The most fked up book for kids
emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This devastated me. I did not expect to feel such things while reading this in a Polish restaurant, waiting for my mushroom dumplings and fries to arrive.
I nearly shed a tear.
What a beauty of a story!
So short and simple, yet so truly moving.
In some way this story holds a message that is very accurate to what modern days have become. Mother Nature
gives us everything and in return we often take only more from her.

great book it brought out my emotional side

Bro left the page and invited capitalism, just to come pack and exploit this lovely little tree for all its natural resources.

This is a child book. I've been fond of child's book since forever, but this one is the first I read after I reached my "young adult" life. :)

Short, most and the foremost. And it'sweet and innocent, just like a pure children. The story is shakin' me to the bone and reminding me about the base that my mother used to taught me, that I forgot one by one along when I grow.

Refreshing and I recommended this to you who has children or little siblings. :)