Jack White To Issue Children’s Picture Book ‘We’re Going To Be Friends’

A song by The White Stripes serves as the inspiration behind Jack White’s debut children’s book. Third Man Books will issue We’re Going To Be Friends, White’s first foray into picture books for kids on November 7.

White teamed with illustrator Elinor Blake, whose other credits include The Ren and Stimpy Show and Pee Wee’s Playhouse as well as recording music as April March. The book comes with a digital download of the original “We’re Going to Be Friends” recording from The White Stripes’ 2001 third studio LP White Blood Cells. Also included are downloads of covers of the song performed by April March and The Woodstation Elementary School Singers.

The book, which follows the song’s character Suzy Lee “as she goes to school with her books and pens, looks for bugs, shows and tells, and finds a friend,” can be pre-ordered at Third Man.