Name: The Giving Tree
SKU: 47191216
Price: 608.00 TWD
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Author: Shel Silverstein
ISBN: 9781846143830

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Synopsis "The Giving Tree "

The Giving Tree is a classic and moving story by Shel Silverstein.Once there was a little tree ... and she loved a little boy. So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk ... and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.Shel Silverstein's very first children's book Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back was published in 1963, and followed the next year by two other books. The first of those, The Giving Tree, is a moving story about the love of a tree for a boy; it took four years before Harper Children's books decided to publish it. Shel returned to humour that same year withA Giraffe and a Half. His first collection of poems and drawings, Where the Sidewalk Ends, appeared in 1974, and his second, A Light in the Attic, in 1981. When he was a G.I. in Japan and Korea in the 1950, he learned to play the guitar and to write songs, including 'A Boy Named Sue' for Johnny Cash. In 1984, Silverstein won a Grammy Award for Best Children's Album for Where the Sidewalk Ends - 'recited, sung and shouted' by the author. He was also an accomplished playwright, including the 1981 hit, 'The Lady or the Tiger Show.' The last book to be published before he died in 1999, was Falling Up (1996).

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Shel Silverstein nació en 1930. Creció en Chicago y creó sus primeros dibujos para los lectores adultos del periódico Stars and Stripes cuando era soldado en Japón y Corea en los años cincuenta. También aprendió a tocar la guitarra y a escribir canciones, entre ellas A Boy Named Sue para Johnny Cash y The Cover of the Rolling Stone, cantada por Dr. Hook. Interpretó sus propias canciones en varios álbumes y escribió otras para amigos, incluida la última, en 1998, Old Dogs, un conjunto de dos volúmenes con las estrellas del country Waylon Jennings, Mel Tillis, Bobby Bare y Jerry Reed. En 1984, Silverstein ganó un premio Grammy al mejor álbum infantil por Where the Sidewalk Ends, “Recitado, cantado y gritado” por el autor. Entre muchos otros de sus libros, traducidos a cuarenta y siete idiomas, se cuentan Una jirafa y media, ¿Quién compra un rinoceronte?, Leocadio, un león de armas tomar y El árbol generoso.

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