The Beatles star has picked up the pen again, this time for a book for his grandchildren.
Sir James Paul McCartney is best known as a musician, and was one of the iconic Beatles band member and a solo artist after. He is a household name and now it looks like the new generation will know him for his book!
McCartney announced on a Youtube video that he will be writing a picture book. The book is called
Hey Grandude, inspired by what his grandchildren call him. He explained, “I’ve got eight grandchildren and they’re all beautiful and one day one of them said to me ‘Hey Grandude!’. I said ‘What?’ and I thought, I kind of like that, so from then on I was known as Grandude.”
McCartney thought that it would make a good story and he set to writing it. It's about Grandude, someone who represents grandfathers everywhere. He calls his grandchildren, "çhillers" and they go on adventures together. McCartney says it's a book for grandathers and it gives them something to read to their grandchildren.
The singing superstar isn't the only ex-Beatle to write a book for children. Ringo Starr has also written a book named after one of their songs,
Octopus's Garden, which was published in 2014.
Hey Grandude is illustrated by Kathryn Durst and published by Puffin, Penguin Random House's children's book imprint. It will release on September 2019.
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