Books are banned for all sorts of wild reasons. One of those is when the content of the novel doesn’t seem to suit the age range, and that was one of the reasons given for banning The Giving Tree by ...

This story is part of Grist’s Summer Dreams arts and culture series, a weeklong exploration of how popular fiction can influence our environmental reality. If you have warm, fuzzy memories of reading ...

What if the Giving Tree said "no" to the boy? Thousands of adults online are resonating with alternate endings to classic children’s books that may not have aged well in light of modern-day gentle ...