Being one of this decade's most successful musical acts, One Direction, members Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, also do their share of charitable work to pay it forward, according to Unreality TV. For their latest project, the group has collaborated with other well-established celebrities to come up with a children's book that will surely be appreciated by the band's many young fans.
The book, "The Curious Tale of Fi-Rex!" has already gone on sale via Amazon and other book sites. Other than One Direction, personalities like Sir Paul McCartney, Kylie Minogue, Take That, Ronan Keating, Bear Grylls, Denise Van Outen, Jaime and Jools Oliver, and many more, have shared their time and talent to write stories. In total, there were 25 celebrities who collaborated for this project, according to Daily Mail, and the proceeds of the sale will go to Children In Need. The book is illustrated by Julia Patton.
According to Metro, the celebrities who participated were asked to write one page of the story, with only the last line of the previous story to tip them off. However, the central plot of the book tells of a little girl who is partly human and partly dinosaur. In the story, the band appears as an animal musical group called Pond Direction.
"I was told who the main character was and I was shown the last sentence of Wayne and Coleen Rooney's part of the story, and I had to carry it on in my style. I was filming EastEnders at the time and would write some of the page in between scenes on the set of Albert Square," Van Outen shared via Metro.
Meanwhile, the band continues with their "On The Road Again" tour this month as they arrived in London at the end of September. According to Daily Mail, the group just finished performing in Manchester Saturday and will be flying off to Glasgow next. Some of boys were spotted unwinding at the bar the following night. On the other hand, Louis was seen watching football at the Ethihad Stadium.
In August, band announced that they will be taking a break beginning March 2016, after their tour is done and their fifth album is released, according to BBC. "The guys have been together for five years, which is an incredible run for any boy band," according to a source who told The Sun. "They fully deserve to have at least a year to work on their own projects. There is absolutely no bad blood between them and they are all 100% behind the decision."
