Who didn't fall in love immediately with Mercy Me's hit "I Can Only Imagine"? The story behind the moving song has just been released as a motion picture and now the book can easily bring the theme to a child's level as the main character wonders what heaven is like. In rhyming verse, the boy wonders if you wake up with messy hair, what there is to eat, what you might spend your day doing, what the rooms look like, what is fun, if Jesus would play too, if there are animals, and more--all questions we have each wondered about at one time or another.
The brightly colored illustrations will capture the attention and imagination of small children. The text is an open invitation to begin talking to your child about heaven but I love that the text ends with an assurance that we don't have to wait to get to heaven to spend time with God. He is in our hearts. His Spirit will guide us. He will never leave us.
I thought this book a nice compliment to the song I have come to love and I believe it to be most suitable for children ages 4 to 9. I did receive this book free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review and am in no way obligated to write a positive one.
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