The Heavenly Village
by Cynthia Rylant
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Undecided souls who have died while they are not quite ready to go to heaven find themselves in the halfway place known as the Heavenly Village.Tags
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Here is Cynthia Rylant's most memorable writing yet -- a spiritual novel about the wonders of life and the afterlife. In this book, a series of touching vignettes, she paints a moving picture of the stopping place between heaven and earth -- and in the process, she reminds us that life is an extraordinary gift, and that those we love are never really far away.
Cynthia Rylant's, "Heavenly Village" is an idea for a spiritual journey of life after death. In this novel, Rylant has a keen way of vividly describing characters. There are two characters that Ms. Rylant created in this story that I became very interested in as I read about them. Everett, a man of 46 years, who lived a routine and somewhat mundane life as a banker on earth; finds that his new life in the Heavenly Village is full of a peace that he had never known. Then there was simple Violet Rose who had a sad beginning and then a humble ending that is filled with peace. Dear Violet suffered through her circumstance on earth and had found solace in her job as a bread-baker on earth. Luckly, she gets to keep this job in the Heavenly show more Village and is able to bless others through this service. I felt drawn into the characters circumstances and their place of existance. What a beautiful life in the Heavenly Village! I not only recommend this book- I insist that you read it! show less
Very short, touching. has a lot to think about.
A good read even for an atheist.
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Cynthia Rylant was born on June 6, 1954 in Hopewell, Virginia. She attended and received degrees at Morris Harvey College, Marshall University, and Kent State University. Rylant worked as an English professor and at the children's department of a public library, where she first discovered her love of children's literature. She has written more show more than 100 children's books in English and Spanish, including works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her novel Missing May won the 1993 Newbery Medal and A Fine White Dust was a 1987 Newbery Honor book. Rylant wrote A Kindness, Soda Jerk, and A Couple of Kooks and Other Stories, which were named as Best Book for Young Adults. When I was Young in the Mountains and The Relatives Came won the Caldecott Award. She has many popular picture books series, including Henry and Mudge, Mr. Putter and Tabby and High-Rise Private Eyes. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1999
- Dedication
- For D and N with love
- First words
- It is said that when people die, they travel to a place of Perfect Happiness, a place of Complete Ecstasy, a place called Heaven.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Kids, Tween, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .R982 .H — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.98)
- Languages
- English, Korean
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- ISBNs
- 6
