A notebook of illustrated poems by the 12-year old John Lennon will be auctioned on 19 April. This picture of a walrus from a verse by Lewis Carroll shows definitively that Lennon knew what a walrus was decades before he wrote that song.
If Yoko The Lennon Estate buys this back from whatever schoolmarm's been hoarding it for all these years, expect a collection of Walrus wallpaper borders and nightlight covers within six months.
Cooper Owen Auctioneers at Tussaud's Wax Museum, April 19 [cooperowen.com via guardian]
Pretty cool. I'm in the middle of reading The Beatles by Bob Spitz. Lennon probably could have made a career of art instead of music if his teachers had been able to channel his energies a little better. You can see he had some skill at 12.