The other night my 4-year-old son approached me with Shel Silverstein’s classic picture book The Giving Tree. I didn’t know we had a copy or where it came from, but I certainly recalled the book from ...

The pages of a classic children's book are playing out in real life at Snohomish High School. 'The Giving Tree' by Shel Silverstein, tells the story of a tree that joyfully gives everything it has to ...

"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 the ...

This story is part of Grist’s Summer Dreams arts and culture series, a weeklong exploration of how popular fiction can influence our environmental reality. If you have warm, fuzzy memories of reading ...

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 ...

Kids — and parents — need to understand that there’s a big difference between selflessness and generosity. By Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant This story was originally published on Oct. 1, 2019 in ...