Overview
2008 ECPA Christian Book Award finalist!
A story of promise about Nathan and his grandfather and their shared love of baseball. It uses the form of story to teach children about heaven, following Jesus, and waiting until we see lost loved ones again. Tyndale House Publishers
Synopsis
Nathan loved baseball.
He watched it on TV . . . went to games . . . read books about it . . . and collected baseball cards.
And he talked and dreamed with his grandfather about running the bases. Gramps always told him, “I’m pretty sure our best baseball is still ahead of us.”
Nathan loved that idea.
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Let best-selling author Randy Alcorn help your child understand what the Bible says about Heaven, a place that’s worth the wait.
Children's Literature
Nathan loves baseball and talks about it all the time with his Gramps, who played seven years in the minors and one season for the Boston Red Sox with Ted Williams on the team. Nathan, however, is in a wheelchair because of spina bifida. He has never been able to walk. Gramps takes him fishing and to a baseball game where he is greeted by some of the players. Nathan's brother and sister enjoy going to the front of lines with him at Disneyland. The family prays before eating together. After dinner Gramps reads from the Book of Revelation about a New Earth. Gramps talks with Nathan about having new bodies in heaven. When Gramps is in the hospital with cancer, he gives Nathan his baseball signed by Ted Williams. At the funeral Nathan's dad reads something from each grandchild. The colored pictures look realistic. The last one shows Nathan playing baseball and being able to run in the new heaven and new earth. At the end are notes on theology with Bible citations. Reviewer: Carlee Hallman