Sir Paul pens book for his fellow ‘Grandudes’

SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY has written his first children’s book about a magical “Grandude” to try to make fellow Grandfathers cool.

The former Beatles musician, 76, penned a children’s story called Hey Grandude!, that is based on his experiences of being a grandfather.

The book follows the adventures of the eponymous Grandude, and his four grandchildren, who he calls his “Chillers”.

Explaining the inspiration, Sir Paul said: “I’ve got eight grandchildren 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 kind of known as Grandude.”

Sir Paul added that the book’s main character was written to represent all grandfathers and he hoped that they would read it to their grandchildren at bedtime.

The book is to be published in September 2019 in the UK and US.