Picture Book Created To Complement Madonna's Malawi Documentary

A book comprised of photographs relating to Madonna's Malawi documentary, I Am Because We Are is in the works. PerezHilton.com reported that the Material Mom herself will write an introduction to the collection, which will feature "images by award-winning photojournalist Kristen Ashburn -- culled from her own work in Malawi and Africa over the past seven years as well as from her specially commissioned photographs for the film -- providing an intimate look at the lives of eight Malawian children featured in the film and reveals the harsh reality of the AIDS pandemic throughout southern Africa."

Madonna appeared in Michigan on August 2nd to introduce her documentary I Am Because We Are at the Traverse City Film Festival. The pop icon was a guest of the event's co-founder, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker and fellow Michigan native Michael Moore.

Madonna's adoption of a two-year-old boy from Malawi was recently finalized.