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Title: What's Heaven? by Maria Shriver, Sandra Speidel ISBN: 0-307-44043-5 Publisher: Golden Books Adult Publishing Pub. Date: 15 February, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (50 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: For adults more than children...
Comment: This is a well-written book about a mother helping her daughter to deal with the grief of losing her grandmother. The problem is it was not written from the child's perspective, but from that of a third-person observer. Children in the primary grades have trouble thinking of their feelings as something that somebody else might have felt. Many will have difficulty seeing this relationship. This book could have benefited by switching perspectives. A much more effective way could have been to have the child expressing her emotions through her thoughts, asking questions to her mother and receiving the appropriate responses. Rather, this book shows a mother telling her daughter how to feel and not allowing the child to truly express her grief.
Why 3 stars?: This book would have done its job much better by being told from the child's perspective as opposed to the mother's. However, it is one of the only books that deals with this subject in such a delightful way.
Rating: 5
Summary: A gentle introduction to the rituals of death.
Comment: This little book will do much to help a child begin to understand the enormity of death. The point of it is not to argue whether there is a Heaven and whether everyone will go there, but to create a safe haven for children to ask questions and receive a little comfort. I used this book to help explain to my 3-year old about my dad's death and used it simply as a tool, skipping over parts I thought she wouldn't understand and expanding on the ones I thought she would. She has come through with the understanding that grandpa is in Heaven (and who is going to explain the complexities of the ideas Heaven and Hell to a 3-year old and frighten them in the process??) and that she will always have her memories of him in her heart to help keep him alive. It also explains that it's OK to be sad and cry if it helps you to feel better about your loss. My daughter has been comforted by that and that's all that matters. This is a childrens' book, after all, geared toward childrens' understandings...not a theological debate.
Rating: 1
Summary: What the Bible Says About Heaven
Comment: My daughter recently purchased Maria's book for her children, ages 5 and 8. I read the book first and suggested she not read
it to the children. The book is not based on Biblical truth, but on Maria's opinion of what she hopes Heaven is like. The book could have been beautiful, had it been written according to scripture. The Bible says that forgiveness and eternal life in heaven are God's free gift. We cannot earn it by doing good things or being "religious". No church can give it to us. We must receive it freely. We must repent of our sins and trust Jesus Christ as our personal Savior. ".....but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" Romans 6:23b
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Title: What's Happening to Grandpa? by Maria Shriver ISBN: 0316001015 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 28 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Sad Isn't Bad: A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing With Loss (Elf-Help Books for Kids) by Michaelene Mundy, R. W. Alley ISBN: 0870293214 Publisher: Abbey Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: What's Wrong with Timmy? by Maria Shriver ISBN: 0316233374 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: 20th Aniversary Edition by Leo Buscaglia ISBN: 0805071954 Publisher: Slack Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children by Bryan Mellonie, Robert Ingpen, Bryan Mellonie ISBN: 0553344021 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1983 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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