title: Maggie Tales: Mommy, Where's Heaven?
author:  Chiquita S. Lockley 
description: A few years ago, I experienced the loss of a little girl who wasvery important to me. As hard as it was for us <i>adults</i> to grasp the magnitude of our loss, can you IMAGINE how confused and devastated her little cousin was? A few months later, I wrote this book as a way to help explain a sometimes terrifying topic to little children. My goal is to explain <i>death</i> and the <i>Circle of Life</i> in a way that brings understanding and comfort during a time that can be so challenging for both adults and children alike. I hope that the words and images that help little <i>Maggie</i> also help you and your family during this time in your lives.
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  # [About the Author](9781780332383_toc.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  **JANE** ******BAILEY** is the author of _Promising,_ _An_ _Angel_ _in_
  _Waiting_ and _Tommy_ _Glover’s_ _Sketch_ _of_ _Heaven._ Her first novel was
  shortlisted for the Dillons Prize and she received a Royal Literary Fund
  award. She was born and brought up in Gloucestershire where she now lives with
  her two daughters.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # **MAD JOY**
  
  
  
  
  
  _Jane Bailey_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # [Also by Jane Bailey](9781780332383_toc.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Promising_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _An_ _Angel_ _in Waiting_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Tommy_ _Glover_ _’_ _s Sketch of Heaven_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # [1](9781780332383_toc.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  At the age of five I ran into a wood, and nearly two years later I walked out
  of it and into the nearest house. I was covered in filth, shoeless, with
  leaves and plant stems matted in my hair. My mother – or the woman I would
  call my mother, Gracie 