Why Heaven is Far Away by Julius Lester and Joe Cepeda is the sequel to the story What a Truly Cool World. This story is geared towards students ages 6-8. This sequel brings back the angel characters from the first story to help bring together community, cooperation, and kindness. It does this while explaining why heaven is now so far away from earth because it used to be that you could go back and forth between heaven and earth by a latter. This sequel did the same as the first, in my opinion, in telling reasons things have happened in a creative way. I think that this story is a good example of being creative and thinking outside the box of why things are the way they are. The illustrations in this book are as good as the first; they are bright colored and help explain the text more. This is a good story, but because of the controversial issues of religion it would not be a good idea to read this in a classroom, but would be good to read it to a kid at home or even in a Sunday school class.
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