This biography is about the life of John Lennon. John was one of the most famous musicians in the world who grew up to spread a message of peace and protest to war. His messages and music has inspired many many people around the world. I didn't know that John Lennon was interested in being a poet and an artist. John was even in art school for some time, but didn't keep up because of his love and passion for guitar. I also didn't know how much American music had inspired John to want to make Rock n' Roll. I thought it was great whenever Rappaport wrote that John saw the feelings of heartbreak and lonelinesss in Rock music and that it inspired him to share those feelings he had always tried to keep hidden. The organization of this book was very clever. On one side of the page there was information that talked about John's life in a chronological order, and in the illustrations of those pages were lyrics that he had written that reflected the moment in his life that was being discussed on that page. This was great at giving a relevancy to the secondary source information written by Rappaport by giving the audience a primary source through John's lyrics in order to offer deeper context to the writing. This book did a good job at covering the entire life of John Lennon from beginning to end. ( )

The story is a biography because it was based on the life of the John Lennon. He is the member of the Beatles. The book used lots of quate of John himself which makes the readers feel closer to his life experience. The illustration in this book is very creative. It was not illustrated in a normal way. It was painted as it was made by the collage. The story was written in a poetry form and was included some lyrics of the songs of the Beatles. It can be used in music class, literature class. ( )

Summary: This book introduce the live of John Lennon, a member of Beatles. He left his parents when he was only five and began to dream as a musician. Though his ante told him he would never be successful, finally he succeeded and became one of the members of the world-famous band. He wanted a peace live and a peace world, but he finally was murdered at his forty.
Genre: biography. This book tells reader the whole live of John Lennon with lyrics of his songs and his quotes. There is not thing made up by the author.
Use: 1. This book mainly talked about the different dreams of John. Ask students whether they also have dreams? Share their dreams within a group, and think about what things they need to do in order to make the dream come true.
2. Students divided in to several group to draw a time line of John's live including summaries of big events. Compare their time line, and analyze the advantages of each group.
Media: Collage and water color ( )

I really loved this portrayal of the John Lennon story. It was not sugarcoated for children, but realistically told and beautifully illustrated for young and old adults.

Awesome. Short and to the point. I learned things about John that I have never known. It also shows the fact that he wanted peace. ( )