Colton Burpo's Confessions

In "Heaven Is for Real," 3-year-old Colton Burpo recovers from serious appendix surgery to tell an astonishing story: During the operation he left his body and visited heaven. Initially skeptical, his parents come to believe him as he vividly describes relatives who had died decades prior and events that happened before he was born.

Colton's father Todd Burpo, the pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan Church in Imperial, Neb., recorded his son's experience and the resulting book became a surprise best seller three years ago. Publisher Thomas Nelson has sold more than nine million copies in the U.S., and it has been translated into 35 foreign languages, including Chinese, Russian and Spanish. It has spent years on best-seller lists and has been an Amazon best-seller for about 120 weeks. And now it has been adapted into a movie starring Greg Kinnear that was released nationwide April 16, bringing in $22.5 million its first weekend, just behind "Captain America: The Winter Soldier."