A tree falls in love with a little boy, who climbs the tree, picks the leaves and eats its apples every day. The little boy is very happy and so is the tree. However, as the boy grows up little by little, he stops playing with the tree. He hopes to have money, so the tree gives him apples for sale; he wants to have his own house, so the tree gives him the branches to build one; he wants to go sailing, so the tree gives him the trunk to make a ship. When the boy becomes an old man and comes back to the tree, there is nothing left for him to take anymore except for the stump that the boy could sit on for a rest...This book is a warm but also a little sad story between a obliging tree and a greedy kid, which is also a touching and instructive fable about giving and receiving, loving and being loved. - from Amzon