The Giving Tree Review

As a little girl, I was very lucky to the same teacher for 1st and 2nd grade.  If we behaved and did all our work, she would read us a story or a chapter from a chapter book.  She had this way of reading to us that always made me drift off and see myself in whatever she read.  I believe this is where I got my love of books from.  She read this book to us often.  The friendship between the boy and the tree was so endearing and honest.  How he changed as he got older and lost sight of what's really important in life.  Even how he lost his innocence, the older he got always made me wonder why that happens to people.  I often thought how sad it was that it took him most of his life to come back to what really matters in life.  The simple things.  I read this to my daughter and I will read it to my son.  I can't wait!