What's Heaven by Shrivner

What's Heaven by Shrivner

This treasure of a book, for people of all faiths, is a starting point for parents who must talk about the difficult topic of death with their children.

What should parents say when a loved one dies? Heaven is a difficult subject that always comes up at tough times, and Maria Shriver has written a very special book precisely for these stressful moments. What's Heaven? is the story of Kate, a little girl whose great-grandma has just died. She seeks answers, and her mother helps her learn about Heaven. The many questions in this book are real, coming from Shriver's own children, nieces, and nephews when her grandmother Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy passed away. With 900,000 copies of the book now in print, the loving, confident, and ultimately uplifting answers Shriver provides are helping readers' families come together, feel closer to one another, and experience peace during the times when they need it most.

Maria Shriver is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist and producer, as well as a six-time New York Times best-selling author and an NBC News Special Anchor covering women's changing roles, power, and needs in modern life. Maria produces socially conscious television, books, films, and digital media with the goal of enlightening, motivating, and igniting hearts and minds in a conversation that will have a beneficial impact on the world. Shriver's work is motivated by her idea that we all have the power to be Architects of Change, people who recognize a problem in their own lives or in the community around them, then move outside of their comfort zone and do whatever it takes to solve it. MariaShriver.com is a website that offers life stories and life lessons from Architects of Change, with the goal of motivating individuals to utilize their own ideas, influence, and initiative to make a difference in the world. Maria is a strong champion for Alzheimer's disease families across the United States.

Sargent Shriver, her father, was diagnosed with the disease in 2003 and died in 2011 at the age of 95. Shriver co-executive produced the Emmy Award-winning four-part HBO documentary series The Alzheimer's Project in 2009, which brought the awful disease to millions of people's attention. Grandfather, Do You Know Who I Am? is one of the series' films. Shriver testified before the United States Senate in 2009.

The Senate Special Committee on Aging wants Congress to make Alzheimer's disease a national priority. Shriver's advocacy was crucial in the approval of the National Alzheimer's Project Act in December 2010. Shriver is also a member of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health's advisory board and continues to advocate for patients and their families.