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10 Things Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree Taught Us (Besides Giving, That Is)

10 Things Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree Taught Us (Besides Giving, That Is)

February 12, 2020

by Whitney Collins, adapted by Dr. Mary Ann Shallcross Smith This slight, leaf-green volume has since become the perfect baby gift, a library mainstay, and a classroom cornerstone, because it teaches—most outwardly—the wonderful lesson of generosity. But is there more to it than that? Scholars have long debated (sometimes quite heatedly) what The Giving Tree […]

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