“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.

WOOSTER, Ohio – Marcy Campbell penned her new book “The More You Give” in response to Shel Silverstein’s popular, divisive children’s book “The Giving Tree.” Published by Knopf ...