Despoina Vogiatzi / 1st Primary School of Efkarpia / Greece : Everything about a tree

 

The Giving Tree is an American children's picture book, 

written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein in 1964

 and it has been translated into numerous languages.

This book has been described as 

"one of the most divisive books

in children's literature": 

the controversy stems from whether the relasionship between the main characters (a boy and the eponymous tree) should be interpreted as positive (i.e., the tree gives the boy selfless love) or negative (i.e., the boy and the tree have an abusive relationship).

We watched the video, discussed it 

and designed our own trees.