Sales Jump for Book Featuring Christina Green
NEW YORK - A book featuring the 9-year old girl slain in last weekend's Arizona shootings jumped into the top 200 on Amazon.com after President Barack Obama mentioned it in his speech at Tucson.
Christina Green was among 50 children in "Faces of Hope," a paperback collection of photographs of babies born on the day of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The book was ranked No. 8,288 before Obama's speech Wednesday night at the University of Arizona and was No. 154, and out of stock, by Thursday morning.
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"Faces of Hope" was released in 2002 by HCI Books, a publisher based in Deerfield Beach, Florida. A spokeswoman said a new printing would be commissioned quickly.
Meanwhile, preparations have been made for Green's funeral. A group of Trappist monks in Peosta, Iowa, who made and donated the casket for her burial, CNN reports.
The 160-year-old New Melleray Abbey has been making caskets since 1999, and has a program for donating caskets to families in mourning specifically designed for children, according to its website.
A U.S. flag that flew atop the World Trade Center is also expected to be used in Green's memorial service.
"You know, I've said it before, but the bookends of her life -- she came into the world on a tragedy on 9/11, and she went out on this tragedy [Saturday] in Arizona. But everything in-between has been wonderful, and she's affected a lot of people," John Green, Christina's father, told CBS News Sunday.
"We're just gonna keep on remembering her forever," her mother Roxanna said. "She was a special little girl."