Ms. Shriver says she wrote it after the death of Rose Kennedy, to help explain their great-grandmother's death to her children. And so it's about an inquisitive girl named Kate, whose grandmother dies. It's a place beyond the moon, the stars, and the clouds. Heaven is where you go when you die. Nothing much, Ms. Shriver assures us.
Some people believe in different kinds of heaven and have different names for it.
At death, Kate is told, angels come and escort one's soul to Heaven. And from Heaven, those souls can look down upon us. That Make My Day . It's literary cereal for Prozac kids. But it could have been worse.