The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein

The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein

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Full bibliographic data for The Giving Tree

Title

The Giving Tree

Authors and contributors

By (author) Shel Silverstein

Physical properties

Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 64
Width: 179 mm
Height: 224 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight: 294 g

Audience

Children/juvenile

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9781846143830
ISBN 10: 1846143837

Classifications

Dewey:813.54
Nielsen BookScan Product Class:Y2.1
BISAC category code:JUV000000
BICMainSubject:YFB

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint name

Particular Books

Publication date

02 December 2010

Publication City/Country

London/GB

Biographical note

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).