Arbor Alma / the Giving Tree (Hardcover)

The Giving Tree is Shel Silverstein's simple yet profound telling of a lifelong relationship between a boy and a nurturing tree. The boy becomes an old man, and, from branches to trunk, diminishes the tree's stature with his requests--or does he? This tender tale has invited generations of readers, young and old, to ponder what it means to give and what, to receive.

The Giving Tree is here rendered in exquisite Latin, a language whose own simple grandeur complements that of Silverstein's original story and illustrations. Arbor Alma adds one more dimension to this multifaceted classic. This Latin-language edition is a welcome, all-occasion gift, a delightful way to revisit a treasured tale, and an enjoyable way to refresh your high school Latin.

*originally published in English by HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1964.

Features

Exquisite Latin translation in a style that echoes the spirit of the original
Original artwork of Shel Silverstein
Latin-to-English vocabulary
Note on the translation and the translators

The Author

Sheldon Allan Silverstein (Shel Silverstein), 1930-1999.
The author and illustrator of children's favorites The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein was a true Renaissance man. In addition to his success as a writer, he was also an accomplished songwriter and playwright. He wrote Johnny Cash's number-one hit "A Boy Named Sue," received an Academy Award nomination for the song "I'm Checking Out," and won a Grammy Award for his album Where the Sidewalk Ends. After his theatrical hit "The Lady or the Tiger Show," Silverstein collaborated with friend and noted playwright David Mamet on scripts for both stage and screen, co-writing the play "Oh, Hell" and the film "Things Change." Of Silverstein, Mamet says: " . . . was my hero."

The Publisher

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., Mundelein, IL, is one of America's leading publishers of books in Latin. Founded in 1980, the firm has over 200 scholarly books, language cassettes and textbooks dealing with the ancient, medieval and contemporary worlds. Quomodo Invidiosulus nomine GRINCHUS Christi natalem Abrogaverit, a Latin translation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Cattus Petasatus, The Cat in the Hat in Latin, have sold 72,000 copies, attracting attention from 600 media worldwide including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, London Daily Telegraph, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Entertainment Weekly and E!Entertainment TV. Bolchazy-Carducci won a Publisher's Marketing Association Benjamin Franklin Award for the promotion of Cattus Petasatus, The Cat in the Hat in Latin. Other prominent titles include The World Dictionary of Foreign Expressions, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Conversational Latin, Virgil's Aeneid, and Shock-Headed Peter.

Author bio

Shel Silverstein is a gifted illustrator, and by turns a witty and thought-provoking children's poet and storyteller. His books are never dull, and often controversial. They include Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and The Missing Piece. Whether writing engaging modern fables or composing giddy ditties, Silverstein delights, touches, and compels the child in all of us to evoke wonder and serious thought.

Jennifer Morrish Tunberg received her doctorate from St. Anne's College, Oxford, England, specializing in paleography of medieval manuscripts copied in Latin. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Languages and the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky and is involved in research on neo-Latin novels.

Terence Owen Tunberg received his doctorate from the University of Toronto. He is a Professor in the Department of Classical Languages and teaches in the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky. He has published widely on medieval and neo-Latin and is founder of the electronic Latin journal Retiarius.

The Tunbergs have also collaborated on the Latin translation of three Seuss classics: Quomodo Invidiosulus nomine GRINCHUS Christi natalem Abrogaverit (How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Latin edition; Bolchazy-Carducci 1998; originally published in English by Random House: New York, 1957); Cattus Petasatus (Bolchazy-Carducci 2000; originally published in English by Random House: New York, 1957); and Green Eggs and Ham In Latin: Virent Ova! Viret Perna!! (Bolchazy-Carducci 2003).

Terence Tunberg is coauthor (with Milena Minkova) of Reading Livy's Rome: Selections from Books I-VI of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita (Bolchazy-Carducci 2005), Latin for the New Millennium (Bolchazy-Carducci 2008).

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