The Best Party Ever Is Coming. And Everyone Is Invited.

Every child has been to a good party. But they have never been to a party like this one.

No one gets left out. No one gets tired or sick or sad. No one has to go home. The food is better than anything they have ever tasted. The music is better than anything they have ever heard. And the host — the one who planned the whole thing, who sent out the invitations, who is making everything ready — is Jesus himself.

The Awesome Super Fantastic Forever Party is a biblically faithful, beautifully illustrated storybook by Joni Eareckson Tada that tackles one of the most important and most misunderstood questions a child can ask: What will heaven be like?

And it answers that question not with clouds, harps, and vague spiritual floating — but with the glorious, surprising, body-and-world-embracing truth of the new creation that the Bible actually promises. A new heavens and a new earth. New hearts. New bodies. A new city. And best of all — Jesus, face to face, forever.

Getting Past the Myths — and Into the Truth

One of the greatest challenges in talking to children about heaven is the weight of cultural mythology that has accumulated around the subject. Clouds. Wings. Eternal boredom. A ghostly, disembodied existence far removed from everything they love about being alive.

Joni Eareckson Tada — who has spent decades thinking about heaven, longing for it, and helping others understand it — cuts through all of that with characteristic warmth, biblical faithfulness, and infectious joy. She helps children discover what the Bible actually says: that heaven is not an escape from the physical world but its renewal. That God does not scrap his creation — he redeems it, restores it, and fills it with his glory. That the new creation will be better than we can possibly imagine — and that our bodies, our relationships, our delight in the world God made, will all be there, transformed and glorified.

This is a truth that excites children. And Joni tells it in a way that excites them brilliantly.

Written From the Inside of Longing

What makes this book uniquely powerful is the person who wrote it. Joni Eareckson Tada became quadriplegic at the age of seventeen following a diving accident. For more than five decades, she has lived with the limitations of a broken body — and for more than five decades, she has fixed her hope on the resurrection and the new creation with a depth and earnestness that few writers can match.

When Joni writes about the promise of a new body, she is not writing theoretically. She is writing from the inside of longing. When she describes the joy of being with Jesus forever, she is writing from a life in which that hope has been tested and proven across decades of pain, dependence, and extraordinary ministry.

Children who read this book — and the parents who read it with them — are receiving the truth about heaven from someone who has staked everything on it. That gives the book a weight, a warmth, and an authority that is genuinely rare.

An Invitation and a Response

One of the most distinctive features of The Awesome Super Fantastic Forever Party is its explicitly invitational tone. This is not a book that simply describes what heaven will be like and leaves children as spectators. It encourages children to respond to Jesus's invitation personally — to repent and believe, to accept the invitation for themselves.

And it goes further: it inspires children to become inviters themselves — to tell their friends, their family, and everyone they know about the party, because the invitation is open to all and the host wants the place to be full.

This makes the book not just a piece of information about the afterlife but a genuine tool for personal faith and gospel witness — children are left not just informed but moved, invited, and sent.

A Particularly Meaningful Resource for Families With Disability

Joni Eareckson Tada is the founder of Joni and Friends — a global organisation dedicated to disability ministry and advocacy for families with special needs around the world. Her book speaks with particular warmth and directness to children and families navigating disability, illness, or the limitations of broken bodies.

The promise of new bodies in the new creation — a truth Joni has lived toward for over fifty years — is not abstract theology for families who know what it is to long for physical wholeness. It is the most personal and hope-giving truth in the Bible. And this book communicates it with the tenderness and conviction of someone who knows exactly what it means.

What This Book Covers

What heaven is really like — cutting through myths and getting to biblical truth
The new creation — a new heavens and new earth, not a disembodied spiritual realm
New hearts — transformed from the inside out, free from sin, pain, and grief
New bodies — resurrected, glorified, and better than we can imagine
A new city — the new Jerusalem, the dwelling place of God with his people
Jesus himself — the best thing about heaven, the one who makes it heaven
The personal invitation — repenting, believing, and receiving the invitation for yourself
The call to invite others — sharing the good news of the party with everyone we know

What Children Will Discover

That heaven is not boring or ghostly — it is the most exciting, joyful, and wonderful thing they can possibly imagine, and better
That the Bible promises a real, physical, embodied new creation — not escape from the world but its glorious renewal
That Jesus is preparing a place for his people and that his invitation is open to everyone
That responding to Jesus personally — repenting and believing — is how you accept the invitation
That sharing the good news with others is part of being part of the party
That the bodies, the world, and the relationships we love are not left behind but renewed and glorified in the new creation
A living, joyful, excited hope for the new creation that shapes how they live now

Who Should Read This Book

Parents wanting a biblically faithful, joyful, and accessible resource to help their children understand heaven and the new creation
Families navigating questions about death, loss, or illness and wanting a gospel-centred answer for their children
Families with disabled children or members who long deeply for the promise of new bodies and a new creation
Churches in India wanting a resource that communicates the joy and hope of the new creation to children
Sunday school and children's ministry leaders wanting a fresh, exciting, and biblically grounded resource on heaven for primary-age children
Parents wanting a book that includes a gospel invitation and encourages children to respond personally to Jesus
Anyone who has ever tried to explain heaven to a child and found themselves struggling with inadequate images
Joni Eareckson Tada readers and supporters who want to introduce her work to the children in their lives

About the Author

Joni Eareckson Tada is one of the most beloved and influential Christian voices of the last half century. At the age of seventeen, she became permanently quadriplegic following a diving accident — and in the decades since, she has become a bestselling author, speaker, artist, and global advocate for people with disabilities. She is the founder and CEO of Joni and Friends International Disability Center — a ministry that has served millions of people with disabilities and their families around the world, including a significant and growing ministry in India and South Asia.

Joni has written more than fifty books, including the widely-read Heaven — one of the most substantive and hope-giving books on the new creation available for adult readers. The Awesome Super Fantastic Forever Party brings her lifelong meditation on heaven and the new creation to children for the first time in storybook form — and does so with all the warmth, biblical faithfulness, and infectious joy that has characterised her ministry across more than five decades. She writes and speaks from the inside of longing, and her words carry the weight of a hope that has been tested and proven through suffering and found unshakeable.