A Heaven Is for Real Deluxe Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

by Todd Burpo

Lynn Vincent (Secondary Author)

#1 New York Times best-seller with more than 11 million copies sold and Amazon's #17 best-selling book of all time. Heaven Is for Real was the best-selling non-fiction book of 2011 as reported by Nielsen's Bookscan, and was developed as a major motion picture by Sony in 2014.

"Do you remember the hospital, Colton?" Sonja said. "Yes, mommy, I remember," he said. "That's where the angels sang to me."

When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed-a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven and back.

Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery-and authenticated that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital while he was being operated on. He talked of visiting heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born. He also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, though he had not yet learned to read.

With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton tells of meeting long-departed family members. He describes Jesus, the angels, how "really, really big" God is, and how much God loves us. Retold by his father, but using Colton's uniquely simple words, Heaven Is for Real offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as Colton says, "Nobody is old and nobody wears glasses."

Heaven Is for Real will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe, like a child.

Continue the Burpo' s story in Heaven Changes Everything: The Rest of Our Story. Heaven Is for Real also is available in Spanish, El cielo es real.

• ISBN10: 0849949203
• ISBN13: 9780849949203
• Publish Date: 31 October 2011 (first published 5 October 2010)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Thomas Nelson Publishers
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 192
• Language: English

Reviews

[ladygrey]

Very short, quick read about a little boys trip to heaven; what he saw and who he spoke to and what it was like. It's definitely interesting and I can see in some ways how it would be inspiring.

The writing was really, really basic but it's a father trying to tell his son's story because he thinks it's worth telling and not a professional writer so I can forgive that.

I think the reason I didn't *love* this book is that I went into it believing the kid and the story so all the "oh my gosh that's so amazing!" moments for me were, "yeah, that's how I'd think it was in heaven." Which, I don't know, maybe took some of the fun out of it.

Which doesn't diminish the family's story at all, just my enthusiastic participation in it. I'm too matter of fact about the whole thing.

[violetpeanut]

Whether or not you actually believe the events of the book, it is well written and an entertaining read. For many people this will be a confirmation of already held beliefs. For others it will be read as a work of fiction. For me, it is a study in the power that one's faith can have in their own life as well as the lives of others - be it good or bad.

[thebookdisciple]

Very interesting and really put some tangible visions in my head.