Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein is a real-life author of Giving Tree. Greg thinks he looks more like a burglar or a pirate than a childrens-book author, and hence was scared of him when he was younger. As a young child, Greg had a Habit of getting out of bed, much to the Annoyance of his Parents, which lead to his father scaring him with a picture of Silverstein