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Shel Silversteins zauberhafte Geschichte über einen Baum, der einen kleinen Jungen so liebte, dass er ihm alles gab, was er hatte!
"Es war einmal ein Baum und der liebte einen kleinen Jungen." So beginnt diese unvergessliche Erzählung. Jeden Tag kam der Junge zum Baum, um mit seinen Blättern zu spielen, von seinen Äpfeln zu essen und an seinen Ästen zu schaukeln. Und der Baum war glücklich.
Aber als der Junge älter wurde, begann er, mehr und mehr vom Baum zu wollen und der Baum gab und gab und gab.
Shel Silverstein hat mit dieser sanften, traurigen, aber tröstenden Geschichte eine bewegende Parabel über Großzügigkeit und das Glück des Liebens gezeichnet und geschrieben, für Leser aller Altersgruppen.

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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

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As recommended by Meghan Markle as the one book she can´t wait to share with her child - the timeless fable about the gift of love

Once there was a little tree ... and she loved a little boy.

So begins the classic bestseller, 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.

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A genius ... his is an enduring influence The Times

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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 with A 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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