“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.

But in Payne’s reimagined “The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries,” the Giving Tree stops at the apples. Instead, the tree shares how she feels about their friendship changing and explains why ...

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 gentle ...

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 gentle ...