Then feel free to print these pages and read as an alternative to everything that follows,” Payne writes. “Just read The Giving Tree as usual, right up to the point where the Boy comes hustling for a house. I fixed it.” Also included is a fix for that most frightening of children’s books (in my opinion): I’ll Love You Forever. Book has all true first highlights, with 4 lines of text on back of title page, showing copyright 1964 Shel. (He also accepts tips.) “Ever settle in with the young person in your life to read one of your childhood favorites, like The Giving Tree or The Rainbow Fish, only to get halfway through it and go, “Wait, WHAT?” Payne writes. 1964 TRUE FIRST edition, Harper + Row, w/ original DUST COVER (curly hair, waist up shot) Hard back binding (green paper with boy and tree on cover, NOT ex-lib, in original dust cover (price-clipped). The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries is part of Payne’s “Topher Fixed It” series, which was created in support of The Atlanta Artist Relief Fund, and which offers printable alternate endings for certain problematic children’s books. Yeah, you remember.Īnyway, playwright and screenwriter Topher Payne has now fixed it. This weekend on Instagram, I discovered something I never knew I always wanted: a helpful update to Shel Silverstein’s psychotic parenting allegory The Giving Tree, in which a tree gives up every molecule of itself to help some ungrateful kid, and we’re supposed to think it’s good and noble or something.
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