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A new YA book about John Lennon and Paul McCartney will help fans know more about the friendship that changed pop culture.This Boy: The Early Lives of John Lennon & Paul McCartney by Ilene Cooper. Viking, 102 pages.For those tweens and teens who can’t get enough of the Beatles lore, This Boy does a reasonably good job of exploring the early lives of John and Paul, whose friendship and talents formed the core of the Beatles. Since so much has already been written about them, there’s not a lot new here, especially since much of Cooper’s material is taken from well-known, existing sources, such as Hunter Davies’s The Beatles and Mark Lewisohn’s The Complete Beatles Chronicles and Tune In. And one heartily wishes that not only were some of the photographs in color, but that black-and-white photographs didn’t bleed into the page, losing whatever sharpness and definition they might have had. This design choice gives an even more dreary and dowdy look to life in Britain during the 1940s and 1950s.

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Source: YA Book Review: The Origins of the Beatles – The Arts Fuse