Madonna’s Christmas stocking-filler

MATERIAL girl Madonna is set to cash in on the Christmas market with the release of her fourth children’s book.

Hundreds of Madonna fans queued for 24 hours outside a central London bookstore where the pop singer signed copies of her new children’s book yesterday.

But only the first 250 hopefuls in line were allowed into Selfridges on Oxford Street to watch Madonna read from The Adventures of Abdi before signing copies.

Crowds gathered on the streets outside the Selfridges store on London’s Oxford Street to see the star but she snuck in through an underground car park entrance.

The new tale - like her previous books - is said to be based on the ancient Jewish faith Kabbalah which the millionaire pop star and her film director husband Guy Ritchie both follow.

Madonna, who is regularly photographed by the paparazzi in the red string bracelet worn by Kabbalah devotees, has reportedly come under fire for highlighting the religion in her children’s books.

Part of the sales from her book reportedly go to fund Kabbalah centres she attends.

The singer yesterday gave a 10-minute reading from the book, which was officially released at the start of this week, to a group of 30 schoolchildren aged eight to 10 from St Winifred’s Catholic Junior School in south London.

She has already penned her fifth book, Lotsa de Casha, which will be released next summer and is about how wealth is overrated.

The illustrated yarn features the Italian greyhound Lotsa de Casha who is the richest creature in the world but is desperately unhappy.