 Hello everybody, my name is Sophie Bass and when the British Library asked me to make a little book about something I love, my first thought was music. I hope that my words and drawings convey the importance of music in all of our lives and its amazing capacity to be such a powerful yet positive outlet for all different emotions. Hope you enjoy! From the something you love collection, Magical Music written and illustrated by Sophie Bass. What do you love? I love music. I love it because it makes me feel lots of different ways and transports me to lots of different places which feels pretty magical to me. I love punk because the unruly energy makes me feel like a ferocious dragon. It feels good to jump and crash your frustrations away. I love dub because the rumbling bassline from a mighty sound system is like medicine for my soul. I love trance because it makes me feel nostalgic. It reminds me of being young just like you and discovering my love dance music. It takes me to the fairground, colourful lights and euphoric rides going round and round. I love darkwave and ambient because it makes me feel like a bat at peace in my deep dark cave. I love my sing-along anthems, songs I know everywhere to and love to sing at the top of my voice. It feels freeing like being a part of a chorus of melodic birds. I love spiritual jazz because it sends me to outer space like I'm floating in the sky watching marvelous things pass by. I love jungle because it makes me feel like I'm the king of the jungle. I love techno and dubstep because it makes me feel like a wobbling, rippling, undulating deep-sea creature surrounded by bubbles, echoes and waves. I love afrobeats and calypso because it makes me shake my hips and move my body like a rattlesnake. What kind of music do you love and how does it make you feel? Isn't music magical? The end.