Using the well-known fact that music education raises a child’s IQ by up to 40 percent, we can now consider how books and reading in general can help our “musical” children.

Presently, mankind, having achieved enormous strides in the field of technology, continues to invent new means of receiving and distributing information nearly daily. Radios, TVs, computers, and the Internet are now a normal way of life. Do you know that all information received doubles every year and a half due to the general acceleration of technology?

These days, we and our children do not need to go to the bookstores and libraries. We can straightforwardly find the book we are looking for on the Internet. Moreover, if we have no time to sit and read, we can record the audio version of the book and take note to it while driving, walking, or doing any other activity that doesn’t require much reflection. There are also video books. Certainly, these adaptable gadgets are very convenient and we should be grateful to people who invent things to make our lives simpler and help us save precious time.

Our children, looking at us, try to copy the things we do. Receiving news in the “simpler” version, for example from the TV, the new generation started to read less. On one hand it is normal. But if you want your child to play music without losing interest, he has to read a lot. While reading, a child increases his vocabulary and intelligence. Your imagination automatically “turns on” when you read something exciting.

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Have you ever read books in which the author describes what his protagonists see around them? For example, dark-blue skies; dewdrops on a blade of grass; dense, colorless fog the colour of milk above the river in the early daylight, etc. Some people omit such descriptive passages in books so as not to miss a string of events, action, adventure, and learn what happens