Jessica lange biography childrens books

• %27It%27s About a Little Bird%27 is based on a true story
• Lange first created it as a personal gift for her granddaughters
• Her photographs also fill the book

Last season on FX's American Horror Story: Asylum, Jessica Lange gave new meaning to the term "scary nun." This season, on Coven, she'll play Fiona Goode, a designer-clad, fork-tongued witch who's good in last name only.

But off-camera, the Oscar and Emmy winner is showing her softer side — as a grandmother — in her first children's picture book, It's About a Little Bird (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, ages 4-8, on sale Tuesday).

Lange, 64, laughs at the incongruity between her wicked TV persona and publishing an innocent children's book.

"Well, the two are not connected at all.

They're just different facets of what I do," she says by phone.

One of the things she does is take photographs, and her charming shots of her two young granddaughters ("two of my favorite p