When You Wonder, You're Learning
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“When You Wonder, You’re Learning explores what’s essential about the Neighborhood, making it visible to parents, teachers, and anyone else who cares about children. It contains, in a very real sense, the blueprints my husband left us.”
- Joanne Rogers
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There’s more to Mister Rogers than his trademark cardigan sweaters. In fact, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood isn’t just a children’s program — it’s a proven blueprint for raising happier, healthier kids. As young people grapple with constant reminders that the world isn’t always kind, parents and teachers can look to Fred Rogers: an ingenious scientist and legendary caregiver who was decades ahead of his time.
 
When You Wonder, You’re Learning reveals this never-before-seen side of America’s favorite neighbor, exploring how Rogers nurtured the “tools for learning” now deemed essential for school, work, and life. These tools can boost academic performance, social-emotional well-being, and even physical health. They cost almost nothing to develop, and they’re up to ten times more predictive of children’s success than test scores.
 
No wonder it’s been called “a must-read for anyone who cares about children.” With insights from thinkers, scientists, and teachers — many of whom worked with Rogers himself — When You Wonder, You’re Learning helps kids and the people who care for them do what Rogers taught best: become the best of whoever they are.
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“What Behr and Rydzewski have done here is bring Fred Rogers' essential humanity down to earth. That is a gift for all in the Neighborhood.”
-Tom Hanks, Academy Award-winning actor and star of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
“Fred Rogers taught that we each have something unique — a kind of inner music that only we can make. In this book, Behr and Rydzewski do for readers what Fred Rogers did in the Neighborhood: use brain science to help all of us become the best of whoever we are.”
​-Goldie Hawn, Academy Award-winning actress and founder of MindUP
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Authors Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski sit in front of a live audience and share from their book, When You Wonder, You’re Learning.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Gregg Behr​
​executive director of The Grable Foundation, father, and children’s advocate whose work has drawn comparisons to his hero, Fred Rogers.
Ryan Rydzewski 
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father, former teacher, and award-winning science and education reporter whose stories focus on everything from schools to space travel to ​Mister Rogers' Neighborhood​.
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