{"id":118313,"date":"2024-08-27T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T12:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/27\/christina-perris-hit-twilight-ballad-is-now-a-childrens-book\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T12:01:57","slug":"christina-perris-hit-twilight-ballad-is-now-a-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/27\/christina-perris-hit-twilight-ballad-is-now-a-childrens-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Perri’s hit ‘Twilight’ ballad is now a children’s book"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christina Perri<\/strong>‘s 2011 hit “A Thousand Years,” originally written for\u00a0The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn \u2013 Part 1<\/em>, is now a children’s book<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The picture book, illustrated by Joy Hwang Ruiz<\/strong>, has been reimagined as the story of the love between a mother and her child. Christina says in a statement, “I am so grateful for the opportunity to have adapted ‘A Thousand Years,’ a song so dear to me, into a children\u2019s book! It feels so right to read these words to my girls, so I hope you enjoy reading it to your little ones, too.”<\/p>\n

Christina additionally tells\u00a0<\/strong>People<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, “I had to rearrange some of the lyrics to make it more children’s book-friendly and shift it more toward a mother and child’s love. I feel like it already was, in a sense. People played the original to their kids long before I decided to sing it to my own kids. It feels very full circle and very exciting.”<\/p>\n

Noting that she wrote the song when she was only 24, Christina tells People,<\/em> “As I grew up, it was like all the listeners and the fans of this song grew up, and then they all started getting married. And then, all of a sudden, it went from a movie song to the\u00a0biggest wedding song.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Now everybody started having babies and everyone is playing this song for their babies,” she adds. “And then I myself started having babies, so it’s all been like organic timeline like in my actual life.”<\/p>\n

Christina is mom to\u00a0daughters<\/strong><\/a> Pixie<\/strong> and Carmella<\/strong>. She tells People<\/em> that Ruiz included details of her and her daughters’ lives in the illustrations, like Carmella’s pet rabbit and her own tattoos.<\/p>\n

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Viking Books for Young Readers Christina Perri‘s 2011 hit “A Thousand Years,” originally written for\u00a0The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn \u2013 Part 1, is now a children’s book. The picture book, illustrated by Joy Hwang Ruiz, has been reimagined as the story of the love between a mother and her child.Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}