![]() ![]() In fact, I think I have actually come to loathe this book. ![]() I do not read The Giving Tree to my kids. As Ruth Margalit wrote in her piece for the New Yorker that marked the 50th anniversary of the publication, " The Giving Tree at Fifty : Sadder than I Remembered," discovering that her childhood favorite "wasn't at all what I remembered carried with it a peculiar thrill, a kind of scientific proof that I'd grown up and changed." Recently while talking about this book with a customer, I had a very interesting experience that allowed me to express my adult feelings about The Giving Tree and contemplate how they have changed since I read it as a child. As a kid reading it, I knew there was something different about this book, that it stood out among the other picture books of the time. I still have the copy that was given to me by my brother on my 11th birthday in 1979 and I have memories of reading it as a kid and watching the animated version made in 1973 (narrated by Shel himself) and loving it very much. If you don't own it, I know you have read it or had it read to you at some point in your existence. I feel certain that most of you reading this right now own a copy of Shel Silverstein's 1964 book, The Giving Tree. ![]()
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