Kylie Minogue Writes Kids Book:It’s More Than I Dare to Think About

Reuters London correspondent Mike Collett-White gets the inside story on Kylie Minogue’s book for kids, The Showgirl Princess. Basically, the article turns the book’s existence into a mini-debate between publishers who see celeb-driven books as good marketing opportunities and children’s book authors who resent the competition. “What really gets up writers’ noses,” suggests Geraldine McCaughrean, the author of a sanctioned Peter Pan sequel, “is when people who have no association with books or talent for writing do it as if it’s something that anyone can produce.” And I thought I was being snotty in contemplating a “following in Madonna’s footsteps yet again” hook to this item…