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Editorial Review:
All you need is love...But tell that to the Blue Meanies! The Meanies want to sneeze sunny, laughing Pepperland away for ever, and if they get their way, it'll mean the end of music. But there's hope - young Fred manages to climb aboard the Yellow Submarine and escape, travelling 80,000 leagues through monstrous seas to Liverpool, where he finds four fab musicians who might just be able to help...
Yellow Submarine Reviews:
The Beatles Yellow Submarine 
2008-11-23 - Vintage Beatles! Always fun, love the Peter Max style illustrations.....very off the wall story line but so characteristic of that happy era!
Beatles Take Over Fourth Grade Classroom! 
2007-03-24 - My son's elementary school hosts "reading day" once a year, honoring Dr. Seuss' birthday. I attended his fourth-grade class today with this book, hoping my love for "Yellow Submarine" was all I'd need to bring film, song, and Beatle wit to kids I'd wondered even knew the group's name.
"How many here have heard of the Beatles?" I started innocently enough. Almost all the kids raised their hands, a good start. (This included my 9-year-old who, with his teenage sister, I've inoculated with their music since singing "I Feel Fine" to them as babies.). "And how many have heard the song `Yellow Submarine'?" "And how many have seen the film?" I asked to fewer and fewer raised hands.
I then introduced and read this story, faithfully summarizing Al Brodax and Erich "Love Story" Segal's whimsical, pun-filled screenplay. I could only approximate amusing British accents (especially "Nowhere Man" Jeremy and the old Mayor) and slowly emphasize John and Ringo's clever puns ("I know Frankenstein. I used to date his sister, Phyllis.") Even casual Beatles fan can hear the film's beloved soundtrack in its pages. But "Yellow Submarine"'s eye-popping psychedelic art, happy ending (the Blue Meanies are flowered, then reformed) and faithfulness to the Beatles' personalities kept this story fresh to children whose parents may not have born in 1968 when it was released.
I reached the last page and its line, "Love is All You Need." The kids applauded, my son's teacher, who smiled at points through my reading, said, "I think I enjoyed it more than they did." My son raised his hand and said "Dad, I heard a lot of Beatles song titles through the book - "Ticket to Ride," "Help," "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band..."
I left happy, knowing I'd successfully shared something I loved with my son and his classmates and proved it timeless. The Beatles, with a top selling CD and sold-out Cirque du Soleil show, are again in renaissance and hardly need more promotion. But "Yellow Submarine," in all its incarnations, recalls the innocence and fun the Beatles' music and personalities continue to bring yet another generation. Highly recommended for fans of the film and group.
Love it!
2005-12-13 -
I'd suggest watching the movie first if you want to get the full "Yellow Submarine" experience.
However, this book is the perfect gift for any Yellow Submarine fan. It's the perfect thing to bring up those fond memories of the movie. :)
THE BEATLES IN WONDERLAND
2005-11-21 - From a 1966 album track to a hit single to a cartoon,this has a life of its own nowadays.Leading to "Octopus'Garden" then to the film "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" which took the same theme,there's been an album which combined George Martin's incidental music,a recent reissue as the "Yellow Submarine Songtrack" which added more songs in place of the Martin music and there's a DVD of the cartoon plus one about the Making Of.
In Liverpool is the lifesize Yellow Submarine constructed at Cammell Lairds shipyard and no end of merchandizing.
Not bad for a film which only starred the Beatles for 2 minutes!
Not only for children.
2005-06-20 - This book is like a dose of calm and warm when you read it. If you love the film you're going to love the book either. You can read it to your kids when they want to hear a strange but beautiful story before bed time. The drawings and the story are fantastic. The only problem is that you will never know how Ringo pushed the panic button.
