SOCCER wonderkid THEO WALCOTT has signed a lucrative new deal - as a children’s author.

The Arsenal and England winger, 20, has been snapped up by a top book publisher after he penned two stories for fun about a hero schoolboy… who happens to be a soccer wonderkid.

His inspirational tales - poised to hit shelves next April - were last night hailed as “full of action and passion”.

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