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 ...

Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” is a classic that has been enjoyed by children for more than 50 years. In Oakland, California, arborists took down a tree’s rotting trunk and broken branches and ...

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 ...

There's something almost magical about the years leading up to adolescence. That brief interval when curiosity is endless, imaginations are limitless, and the world still holds its magical quality. It ...