London, March 22 : Actor Gary Sinise has financed a translated reprint of Seabiscuit: An American Legend, a popular non-fiction book based on horse racing, for kids in Iraq to read.

The ‘Apollo 13’ star collaborated with author Laura Hillenbrand to help in bringing out the Arabic version after they found out that kids in Baghdad had become huge fans of her tale of the iconic thoroughbred race horse, Seabiscuit.

Forrest Gump star Gary Sinise funded a reprint of the book Seabiscuit in Arabic language after learning that the kids in Baghdad had become big fans of author Laura Hillenbrand tale of a heroic horse after hearing the news that a U. S. colonel had attempted to translate segments for the kids, who all loved it a lot.

Sinise tells WENN, "Laura wanted to get it translated to Arabic because one of the colonels was reading the book and the Iraqi kids started asking him about it, so he contacted her and asked for Arabic translations of the book.

"We made 15,000 copies of Seabiscuit in Arabic and sent it over there."