This week's blog will be about The Giving Tree. The author is Shel Silverstien and he has made a wonderful children's book! This book would be put under the genre of picture books. The illustrations of this book are simple yet they tell a story better than most! The characters in this book are a little boy and a willow tree that love each other greatly. The story starts with the boy being young and loving to do things like climb the tree's trunk and swing from its branches. However, as the boy gets older he looses interest and comes and visits the tree less and less. Every time he does come to visit the tree he wants something to make him happy and since the tree loves him so much she gives it to him.
This image is at the end of the book. The boy every time he came to visit the tree he took things like her branches, apples and trunk. At the end the boy is old and the tree has nothing to offer him besides her stump for him to sit on. This book has a great cause and effect relationship between the boy and the tree. In the end the boy took everything from the tree who graciously gave everything she had to him. All that he had left was an old stump from his childhood memories.
This book is for the younger age groups such as kindergarten through third grade. It is a simple read but can offer some good life lessons throughout its pages. This was my favorite book throughout my childhood and is my all time favorite children's book.
Good pick! I think cause and effect is a concept very important to the academic growth of students. This story activates critical thinking and encourages students to see beyonds what is written on the page. This story has a strong emotional pull that attaches to a good moral, if you take and take without giving back eventually there will be nothing left. I really enjoyed this story!
ReplyDeleteI think this can make kids take a look at their own friendships and think about what they may be doing to the other person. There are people out there, like the tree, that will just give and give until they have nothing left, and even then, they will still be there for you. The people that are most likely like the tree in a child's life would be their parents, and I think this book could be used to show the kids that while they are given everything they need in life, their parents have to work hard and sometimes go without things that they need, in order to provide for their kids and make them happy.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good book for children to start thinking about the effect they have on other people and their lives. I remember disliking this book as a child because i realized just how selfish the boy was and how the tree was way too kind. I agree that it can teach life lessons but more than that it's an easy read that teaches true life lessons. I feel when reading/ after reading the point needs to be made not to take advantage of others even if in the end that person will be happy about what happened and doesn't really care what you do as long as you're doing well.
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