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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Creepiest books: I Love You Forever and Elf on the Shelf. Awful. I think the Giving Tree just isn't a children's book. It is incredibly sad and poignant about the role of the parent and the happy/blind selfishness of the child. To the person who asked about the "moral"... I think the message is that in the nature of this relationship the child never really appreciates the parents' sacrifice. I think it is a good book--just depressing and not for children![/quote]

Absolutely, thank you for putting this so well.  The Giving Tree is an incredible book that's not really meant for children.  I don't think of it as depressing, just a reflection on the nature of the parent/child relationship, like you said.   I read this book just after giving birth, and as I sat there in terrible pain, and I felt crushed and broken physically, this book had an incredible resonance for me.  Of course my body healed, but emotionally, parents give and give and give, out of true love, and kids give back in their own ways, but it is just different.  I get the sense that people who take offense to this book are reading it in some sort of feminist way, or politically correct way (what an outrage that you give yourself completely to your child!), instead of as a simple yet deep take on what it means to sacrifice as a parent, and to love doing it.  [/quote]

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