MaggieÕs Questions About Heaven is meant to spark discussion between adults and children about death as a part of life, a book filled with love of family and love of life. Maggie is a 12-year-old whose grandmother, at the beginning of the book, had died one month earlier. The book progresses by a year, working its way through two letters from Maggie to her grandmother in Heaven plus 27 questions answered as her grandmother might have answered them if mail came to Earth from Heaven.
Early reader Carol Ann Clecker, a self-described Kindred Granny, said: ÒIÕm in love É with Maggie and her innocent inquisitive thoughts É with Granny and her kind and gentle way to tell Maggie how much she is loved É with Chas Ridley for taking such an uncomfortable and sometimes ignored subject and injecting it with color, strength, light and much love.Ó