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 Pop
star Madonna will set a publishing record when her book
'The English Roses', her first foray into children's writing,
is published later this year.
The book will be published in 100 countries and will be
translated into 42 languages in what is being hailed as
the biggest ever release of its kind.
The US publisher of the book, Callaway Editions, said it
would become the "widest simultaneous multi-language
release in publishing history".
It is the singers first of five proposed children's morality
tales based on Hebrew texts she is studying from the Kabbalah
religion.
Madonna, who has two children of her own, has criticized
what she called "vapid and vacant" books that
offered no lessons in life for younger readers.
The English Roses is described as "a story... about
friendship, jealousy, sleepover parties, and fairy godmothers".
It has a projected first print run of 400,000 in the US
and will be illustrated throughout with colour pictures
by an as-yet unidentified "acclaimed" artist.
The book is being published by Callaway and Penguin Group,
in association with various publishers around the world.
The title and release date of the second book will be announced
when the first one appears in shops.
'The English Roses' will be published in hardback in September
2003.
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