LOS ANGELES, March 17 (UPI) -- British rocker Paul McCartney is the latest celebrity to pen a children's book, MSNBC reported Wednesday.
Following on the heels of Madonna and Ray Romano, McCartney is working on "High in the Clouds," a book about two squirrels and a frog who try to rescue animals endangered by urban development, MSNBC said.
Co-written by Philip Ardagh and illustrated by Geoff Dunbar, "High in the Clouds" is being published in the United Kingdom by Faber and Faber, but no U.S. publisher has been announced.
One publishing industry insider told MSNBC's The Scoop column: "This will be a hot property. Even if the book is awful, it will sell like hotcakes. Because he's Paul McCartney, he's almost guaranteed to get on all the talk shows to promote it, and what politically correct, baby boomer parents wouldn't want their children -- or their grandchildren -- to read a book by a former Beatle?"
