The Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I, or course, read this masterpiece first years ago. A chance encounter at a Little Free Library with this 35th anniversary edition was an invitation to see if I would still be impressed. Silverstein offer the world wisdom and whimsy. This is rich in wisdom and the final page still hit me with a twinge of recognition of this "sad and beautiful world".
This also takes me back to a place named after a tree: The Black Walnut Bed and Breakfast Inn in Asheville, NC. In a (too) short stay at those luxury accomodations, I met owner Peter White who had an original Silverstein drawing in the bathroom off the kitchen. Payment Shel made for backed goods to this one-time baker on Martha's Vineyard.
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