“Setting healthy boundaries is a very important part of giving. It assures you’ll always have something left to give,” the book ends. “And so the tree was happy.

“Reading your ending to 'The Giving Tree' healed a little piece of me tonight!” commented one Instagram user. "Thank you for this − I always loathed the message in this book," another wrote.

"Once there was a tree and she loved a boy." And so begins Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree, the bestselling children's book that turns 50 this year and is still, 10 million copies later, one of ...

This project provides files for creating tactile enhancements for the classic picture book, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. This story provides a central element, the tree, that gradually loses ...

Some readers remember The Giving Tree as a sweet picture book about the strength of unconditional love. To others, it was a heartbreaking tale that messed them up during story time. No matter your ...

The Giving Tree, Abbott says, reflects a worldview that nature is here for the taking, and that it’s separate from humans, not deeply interconnected. “This point of view has gotten us to this ...

Since it was published back in 1964, Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” has imparted to its readers the idea of altruism: the importance of selfless love and the joy of giving selflessly.