Can You Imagine?
The Art and Life of Yoko Ono
Lisa Tolin author Yas Imamura illustrator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Published:13th Feb '25
Should be back in stock very soon
A stunning picture book biography in lyrical, poignant prose about Yoko Ono—a brilliant musician and one of the creative minds behind the iconic song “Imagine” by John Lennon.
Yoko Ono has been called many things: Bold. Confrontational. Controversial. Artist. Musician. Witch.
But she has always been, first and foremost, Yoko: a girl who used her imagination to escape the horrors of World War II, and then a woman who used that same gift to find peace after an act of unfathomable violence.
This is a story of a singular soul: an artist, musician, and writer who has always innovated beyond the limits of the accepted, whose brilliance cannot be overshadowed, and whose imagination has been truly revolutionary.
★ "Yoko Ono is finally given her due as an artist in this picture book biography, brought to life by Imamura's beautiful and tonally perfect artwork...backmatter cements this as an excellent nonfiction piece." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review
Imamura’s appropriately eclectic illustrations often suspend Ono in the midst of twirling ideas, emotions, and circumstances...Tolin centers her subject’s own rich, sometimes polarizing, life advocating for peace, creativity, and individuality. -- Horn Book Magazine
"Imamura’s appropriately eclectic illustrations often suspend Ono in the midst of twirling ideas, emotions, and circumstances...Tolin centers her subject’s own rich, sometimes polarizing, life advocating for peace, creativity, and individuality." -- Horn Book Magazine
"Fresh, perceptive, and worthy of attention." -- Kirkus Reviews
"A fitting tribute to an artist who is both unrepentantly idealistic and unmistakably tough-minded." -- Publishers Weekly
ISBN: 9781534487789
Dimensions: 254mm x 254mm x 13mm
Weight: 508g
48 pages