Heaven Is for Real

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back is a 2010 New York Times best-selling Christian biography written by a Methodist pastor, Reverend Todd Burpo from rural Nebraska, and Lynn Vincent and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. The book documents the near-death experience and the miraculous vision by Burpo's then nearly four-years-old gravely ill son Colton Burpo in 2002, during his appendix surgery, and his visit to heaven.

By April 2012, more than one million ebooks had been sold, and more than 10 million copies had been sold by 2014. A feature film based on the book was released on April 16, 2014, earning $101 million at the box office.