Beatles classic Yellow Submarine becomes book

THE Beatles’ psychedelic cartoon, The Yellow Submarine, is being made into a children’s book.

The book will hit the shops in September, 36 years after the original film was released. A digitally restored version of the Sixties classic was released on DVD in 1999. Its success inspired The Beatles’ company, Apple Corps, to team up with Walker Books for the project.

An Apple spokesman said: “Yellow Submarine was made as a psychedelic film in the Sixties, but it has had a timeless appeal, particularly for children, over the last four decades.”

The single was a worldwide No 1 hit in 1966 and was taken up as an anti-war anthem by activists opposed to the Vietnam war.

The Beatles did not provide the voices for the film.

The book comes as Paul McCartney turns children’s author. The ex-Beatle is to bring out High In The Clouds, “an urban fairytale about two squirrels and a frog whose home is destroyed by developers”.