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[quote=Anonymous]My DS has become infatuated with "The Giving Tree" and wants me to read it to him before naps and bed. It's a pretty depressing book, and I'm not even really sure what to make of the "meaning." Am I supposed to take away the message that all that's really important is togetherness (i.e. the boy comes back to the tree at the end, and both are happy), or that the tree gave too much, or the boy was too greedy and selfish (even though he never seems to realize this)? I guess it doesn't matter too much, and my 3-year-old probably just likes the simplicity of the idea of a friendship between a tree and a boy, but I feel like I should be guiding him somehow on understanding that what's going on isn't exactly "right"... Not trying to make more of this than there is, but when you read the book 30 times again and again, you start to either feel really depressed or really hope there's another way to look at the meaning![/quote]
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