The message of John Lennon’s song Imagine – is going to be transmitted through a children’s picture book.

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will join Amnesty International – to put out Imagine next September – created by Illustrator Jean Jullien.

Yoko Ono has given her blessing to the publication – telling the story of a young pigeon’s mission for peace – through the lyrics of the 1971 song.