The Tree Shel Silverstein
Andersen Award 2015 - Best book ever awarded.
For being an indubitable, little classic of illustration that (fifty years after its first edition) has lost nothing in narrative force and charm. Knowing how to give voice, despite its essential structure, to a vast plurality of suggestions. To be a sort of elementary "coming-of-age story", a tale without morals and for all ages.
- Plot The Tree Shel Silverstein
A tree falls in love with a child.
A child falls in love with a tree.
The tree gives him its fruits. The child plays with his leaves. The tree shelters him in his shadow.
The child grows, becomes more and more demanding. The tree, on the other hand, is always there, unchanging and available. Happiness, sadness, love could have been feelings experienced alike by a man and a tree, as both are part of nature. But the balances have been altered and unconditional love, the ability to give and accept others have remained the prerogatives of a few: true heroes of our time.
Age of reading: from 4 years.
Shel Silvestein (1930, Chiacago) a multifaceted author, Silverstain was a poet, playwright, composer, lyricist, musician, writer, illustrator.
The author was nominated for an Oscar for the music of Postcards from Hell; he won the Grammy Award with A boy named Sue played by Johnny Cash. He knew how to play guitar, piano, saxophone, and even the trombone, casually alternating the keys of the piano with those of the typewriter, never disdaining the pencil to illustrate his ideas.
Among his most famous tales of him, "The giving tree" ("The tree", Salani) and "The missing piece". In the unripe ear catalog: "Who wants a rhino at a special price?", "Lafcadio" (2009), "In search of the lost piece".
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