Madonna says the children’s books she’s writing will be “moral tales based on the cabbala”. “She condemned the shallow nature of most children’s books, explaining that the suggestion for her project came from the teacher with whom she has been studying the cabbala for seven years. She spotted the lack of moral children’s books when reading to her first child, Lourdes. ‘Now I’m starting to read to my son, but I couldn’t believe how vapid and vacant and empty all the stories were’.”