Everything is Music is a quick read with a lot to look at that will slow the reading down and encourage kids to think about the music in the sounds they hear every day.
The book, written and illustrated by Miran Park (and translated by Paige Aniyah Morris) explores a day in the music of its sounds.
“When morning comes, the sounds stretch awake,” the book opens, following a little girl on a bike in a red dress that changes int a raincoat later in the book. Color is used sparingly other than the red coat and the yellow of the music of everyday objects.
You’ll find treble clefs hidden in bushes, birds flying though the shape of a cello, and lots of other instruments and musical notes decorating the simple line drawings of city scenes.
The story highlights the music found in the laughter of children, the whistle of wind down an alley and the pattering of rain in a storm. Sounds are said to whizz and woosh, while people walking in the rain pitter-patter and birds chirp after the rain ends.
“Everything is music,” the book notes.
At the end of the book you’ll find images of different instruments shown in the story such as a French horn, guitar, trumpet, xylophone and harp.
This fun little story is likely to get kids making their own music as you read, and they’ll be excited to point out the different instruments and notes once you’ve pointed them out once.
This would be a fun book for an elementary school music teacher to have to read to kids and encourage them to listen for and collect the sounds that are happening around them all the time as a reminder that it is all music and we are a part of the sounds that are the music in the world.
About the book: 44 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Blue Dot Kids Press. Suggested retail price $19.95.
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