Queen Rania of Jordan has just written a children’s book about the themes of “getting to know others, openness and multiculturalism.”

The book was launched in April with a reading given by Rania at the United Nations, is on the New York Times’ bestseller list, and its promotion in the United States has included appearances by the Jordanian queen in television interviews with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. Since 2007, Queen Rania has been working with UNICEF on child welfare issues and as honorary chairman of the UN’s effort to promote the education of girls.

So it rather sullies this latter-day ‘saint’s halo to find that she has specifically rejected any offers to publish an edition in Hebrew. Read your own book, hypocrite.