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Why Heaven Is Far Away
By Lester, Julius
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-43917-871-6
- Publisher
- Scholastic
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2002
K-Gr 2 This companion volume to What a Truly Cool World! (Scholastic, 1999) falls short of the success of its predecessor. Once again, Lester and Cepeda take children to a heaven populated by God, His wife Irene, and their deputies, Bruce and Shaniqua. In this title, which centers on God's attempts to provide snakes with a defense mechanism, the author recycles a story from his Black Folktales (Grove, 1991). Instead of just explai...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2002
Lester sets a second comic pourquoi tale in the hip heaven he introduced in What a Truly Cool World (rev. 3/99)—a heaven in which God and Mrs. Irene God enjoy coffee before he goes to work and where secretary-angel Bruce greets him with a breezy "Yo! What's up, Deity?" and addresses him alliteratively as "Majestic Maker" and "Feckless Fomenter." As the author details in an excellent note, his sources are the African tale "Why the Sky Is Far Away" a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
