There is an appalling amount of misinformation in history books written for children. Maybe I am too fussy about this because I teach history. Take a look at the photo below from the children’s book: ‘The Lives of the Great Composers.’ Beethoven was a musical genius, but I’m pretty sure that he couldn’t write music after his death. The book also says that: “Wolfgang Mozart was born in 1756. He astonished the musical world when he wrote the Minuet in G in 1751.” Mozart wrote the Minuet in G when he was only 5 years old, which is pretty astonishing; however, it would have been even more astonishing if he had written it 5 years before he was born.