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Celebrate the love that surrounds us every day with this lyrical picture book that beautifully illustrates John Lennon and Paul McCartney's world-renowned classic song "All You Need Is Love."
All you need is love, all you need is love
All you need is love, love, love is all you need
In this gorgeously illustrated picture book, the universally loved song "All You Need Is Love" comes vividly to life, showing that if we follow the music we will see there is indeed love all around us.
Author Notes
Best known for his work with the world-renowned rock group, The Beatles, John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool, England on October 9, 1940 to Alfred and Julia Stanley Lennon. Lennon was married twice, first to Cynthia Powell in 1962, with whom he had a child, John Julian, and later, in 1969, to Yoko Ono, the mother of his son Sean Taro Ono.
Lennon was involved in various late 1950s British musical groups. He helped establish the Beatles in the early 1960s, teaming up with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney to write numerous bestselling popular songs including "Revolution" and "Strawberry Fields Forever." The Beatles' universal fame also resulted in their starring in such films as "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night."
When he met and married Yoko Ono in 1969, Lennon legally changed his name to John Ono Lennon. It was with Ono that he collaborated on several musical projects following the breakup of The Beatles. Lennon and Ono also gained notoriety from such public acts as being filmed and interviewed in bed, as a form of peace protest.
John Lennon also had a string of post-Beatle solo music successes and he published satirical poems and stories. He moved to New York City and on December 8, 1980, he was shot to death outside his home in the Dakota building, by a deranged ex-fan, Mark David Chapman. He and Ono had just finished recording a new album "Double Fantasy." After its release, one of the songs, "Starting Over" was released as a single and rejuvenated his musical fame as his fans mourned his passing.
Each year, on the anniversary of John Lennon's death, his fans throughout the world hold memorial services. Strawberry Fields, New York City's Central Park, further commemorates him.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-The iconic Lennon and McCartney lyrics are brought to life in full-color art for a new generation. A bear is awakened by the sweet sound of a mother bluebird singing with her baby. The bear is so enchanted that he follows them as they fly through the countryside and into the town. As they go, more animals and even people join in the melodic and merry parade, spreading love and joy as they pass houses and cross bridges full of people that could use a little cheer. The parade ends in an explosion of color and camaraderie in a neighborhood park. A picture book for all ages, this is sure to bring a sense of happiness and well-being to all who read it. The illustrations are as inspiring as the lyrics, with bright rainbow colors, and lighthearted, animated characters. The diversity of human characters is to be appreciated, and the change of setting as the parade marches on adds interest and intrigue. VERDICT A cultural must-have for all well-rounded library collections.-Amy Shepherd, St. Anne's Episcopal School, Middleton, DE © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Rosenthal (Small Walt) turns Lennon and McCartney's Summer of Love anthem into a tribute to friendship and community. At the end of winter, when the trees are still bare and melted snow puddles dot the ground, a bear in its den hears the happy song of a bluebird family ("Love, love, love") and is inspired to take the message to the forest, and then to the streets. Accompanied by the birds and other woodland friends, the bear enlists a lonely-looking boy to join; the boy in turn urges a brooding girl to shake off her mood and march beside him. Flowers spring up in their path, the landscape turns lush, and people of all ages celebrate their connections to one another. The circular, allusive lyrics may be hard for young listeners to track when read aloud ("There's nothing you can do that can't be done/.... Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game"). But singing the text-and giving in to the impulse to sway along-imbues it with fun and meaning, and Rosenthal's joyful cartooning underscores the exhortation that "it's easy" to share good vibes. Final art not seen by PW. Ages 4-8. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
If ever there was a pop song whose uplifting sentiment suits a picture book, it's this Beatles classic. And if ever there was a pop song whose lyrics look inane in a picture book, it's this one ("Love, love, love..., etc.). Still, the jubilant illustrations of a bear moved to good deeds by the sound of music delivers the message. (c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Yet another famous song gets the picture-book treatment, and yet another song's lyrics are revealed to be less than the sum of the tune's parts.The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" was born in the Summer of Love, and its chorus reflects that. The verses, though.As Barry Miles quotes Paul McCartney in his book Many Years from Now, "The chorusis simple, but the verse is quite complex; in fact, I never understood it." Young readers are no more likely to get it than McCartney, and even adults reading, "There's nothing you can do that can't be done," are likely to say, "Duh." It's best just to go with it and stick around for the chorus. Rosenthal's artwork begins with a bear in a den made of rocks listening to some birds in a nest: "Love, love, love." Two more successive spreads show the bear inspecting the birds' nest up close and then, walking on two hind legs, starting a parade through the forest to the outskirts of a town and then right through it, forest animals and a pair of children, one brown-skinned with short black hair and the other a pale-skinned blonde, joining behind, with the whole parade leaving blooming flowers in its wake. Along the way, diverse people stop and watch. While bright and colorful, the pictures don't elucidate the verses' meaning any better than the text, though love comes through loud and clear. Final art not seen.Beatles lovers should stick to sharing just the tune and skip this. (Picture book. 3-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.