Learn - Twenty tales about the mind that will not sit still #1013150

Somewhere, right now, a child is being handed a number — a score, a reading level, a coloured dot on a screen — and is quietly learning to read it as a verdict on who they are. Learn brings the news that should have come first: no mind is fixed. Twenty short tales on the science of their own minds — memory and sleep, attention and practice, the way praise and failure shape a brain that rebuilds itself — each retold for older readers and tied back to a chapter of Thrones of the Invisible. One question runs through all of them: who decided what you were told you are, and what is it serving?
Learn gathers twenty tales that argue otherwise, one small story at a time. Each began as a children's picture book and is retold here for older readers, tied back to a chapter of Thrones of the Invisible. Together they trace a single arc: how a mind is talked into believing it cannot grow — and how it learns, again, that it can.