title: Heaven for Kids: My First Bible Reference for 5-8 Year Olds
author:  Ed Strauss 
description: <div>...biblically accurate and helpful for children who have questions about Heaven, especially those who have experienced the loss of a loved one. It is written on a child's level and I believe children would find the information interesting.</div> (Tonja Erickson <i>educator</i> 2013-11-11)<br /><br /><div>Glossy pages, bright photographs, and age appropriate vocabulary will draw children into learning about heaven. Even adults will enjoy a refresher with all of the fun facts the author has pulled together. I would recommend this book to anyone with a child who wants to know all about where Jesus lives.</div> (Tima Murrell <i>Book Reviews by Tima</i> 2013-11-06)
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  My child
  Such trouble I have.
  And you sleep, your heart is placid;
  you dream in the joyless wood;
  in the night nailed in bronze,
  in the blue dark you lie still and shine.
  Simonides (c. 556–468 BCE),
  “Danaë” (tr. Richmond Lattimore)
  
   
  Contents
   
  PRESENTS
   
  UNLYING
   
  DYING
   
  AFTER
   
  LIVING
   
  
   
  Presents
  
   
  Today I’m five. I was four last night going to
  sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in
  the dark I’m changed to five, abracadabra.
  Before that I was three, then two, then one, then
  zero. “Was I minus numbers?”
  “Hmm?” Ma does a big stretch.
  “Up in Heaven. Was I minus one, minus two,
  minus three—?”
  “Nah, the numbers didn’t start till you zoomed
  down.”
  “Through Skylight. You were all sad till I
  happened in your tummy.”
  “You said it.” Ma leans out of Bed to switch
  on Lamp, he makes everything light up whoosh.
  I shut my eyes just in time, then open one a
  
  crack, then both.
  “I cried till I didn’t have any tears left,” she
  tells me. “I just lay here counting the seconds.”
  “How ma