The Giving tree is a children story book written by Shel Silverstein.
It is a god children book and the best known title for Silverstein and also translated into numerous language.This is a story of a female apple tree and a boy. The boy and the tree has a long term relationship. They both develop a relationship with one another.
The story start with the boy childhood, In his childhood he enjoys playing with the tree, climbing into it, swinging from branches eating her apples.
When he grows up the relation between them goes less communication. He spends less time with the tree and ignore many times due to his busy.
The tree gives him her apples to make money, her branches for a house, her trunk for a boat and she was happy to give all in every stage of giving. At last when the boy returns as an elderly man she was sad and says she does not have anything to give him. But he states that he just wants a quite place to sit and rest. This is how the story ends.
It is a nice story to read and understand the stages in our life and also a lesson teach us that we should never ignore anyone.
A good moral story to read with children.