Books by Jonathan Gould

Could there be a genie in that magic lamp?Bella is so excited when she discovers an old lamp, because it looks just like the lamps in those stories she loves. What will happen if she rubs it? Will a genie appear and offer her three wishes, just like in those stories?She rubs it and... presto! A real-life genie! But the genie looks so... blue--in more ways than one.Bella does everything she can to cheer Genie up, and along the way she discovers an important lesson: there’s more than one way to make wishes come true.Evolved Publishing presents a fun and fantastic tale to offer valuable lessons while entertaining your young readers.Jonathan Gould tells a warm and funny story about friendship and responsibility, with fun illustrations from Richard Tran that bring the colourful world of a child to life.Books by Jonathan Gould:Bella and the Blue GenieMaddie's MonstersThomas and the Tiger-TurtleMore Great Children's Picture Books from Evolved Publishing:Ninja and Bunny's Great Adventure by Kara S TylerSully P. Snooferpoot Series by Aaron Shaw Ph.D.Emlyn and the Gremlin Series by Steff F KneffValentina's Spooky Adventures Series by Majanka Verstraete 

Jonathan Gould's Can't Buy Me Love is more than just a book on the Beatles; it's a stunning recreation of the 1960s in England and America through the prism of the world's most iconic band. The Beatles, perhaps more than any act before or since, were a quintessential product of their time, and Gould brilliantly blends cultural history, musical analysis and group biography to show the unique part they played in the shaping of post-war Britain and America. Gould examines the influence of R&B, rockabilly, skiffle and Motown as the Fab Four forged a sound of their own; he illuminates the mercurial relationship the most productive and lucrative in recording music history between John Lennon and Paul McCartney; he critiques the songs they played and the movies they made, and their impact on competing bands and musicians, as well as on fashion, hairstyles, and humour; and he shows how events on both sides of the Atlantic created exactly the right cultural climate for the biggest music phenomenon of 20th century. Beautifully written, insightful, and wonderfully evocative, this is a magisterial biography by a popular historian of the very first rank.