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...weekend, crews were still sifting rubble for four missing persons. Mostly the searchers turned up not corpses but the mere record of lives: a half-buried checkbook, a Christmas-tree stand, a little red wagon crushed under a beam. In Del City, Monica Hicks wandered the vacant lot that had been her home and remarked, "I knew it would be bad, but I didn't prepare myself for this. My three-year-old said, 'Mommy, the tornado ate our house.'" Hicks spotted a pink plastic Cadillac on the ground with a doll at the wheel and broke into a loopy...
Perhaps Silverstein's greatest work was The Giving Tree, which told a deceptively simple story about a tree "who loved a little boy." The tree, in her love for the boy, gives everything of herself--quite literally--to a boy who selfishly takes...
...children, The Giving Tree is a metaphor for unrequited parental love. For adults, it has been interpreted as a everything from a religious parable to a cynical look at adulthood. A symposium on the book was held in 1995, where distinguished scholars debated the book's underlying meaning...
...Giving Tree is just one example of how Silverstein's work for children was embraced by children and adults alike. And this is what made him a master. In 1975, Silverstein told Publisher's Weekly, "I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick up one and experience a personal sense of discovery...
...room? Don't I fight for my right to party? I smile as I recall the wealthy, cookie-cutter suburb of New York City where I grew up. Maybe I'm not quite ready to break out the turntables and drop rhymes like my childhood in a multi-acre, tree-lined estate compels me to. But at least my relationship with hip-hop goes beyond a fondness for the Fat Boys. Because when I was growing up, everyone's father was a lawyer, and everyone's mother was a real estate agent. And you're going to tell me that...