Boy's bestseller: "Heaven Is for Real"
Boy’s Tale of Heaven Is Publishing Phenomenon Just two months shy of his fourth birthday, Colton Burpo, the son of an evangelical pastor in Imperial, Neb., was rushed into emergency surgery with a burst appendix. He woke up with an astonishing story: He had died and gone to heaven, where he met his great-grandfather; the biblical figure Samson; John the Baptist; and Jesus, who had eyes that “were just sort of a sea-blue and they seemed to sparkle,” Colton, now 11 years old, recalled. Book: Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
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