I've spoken before in these pages about the ability of the best writers to grip you even when nothing very much happens, and it seems that Almond is having fun with that idea here. Fortunately for Mina, she has a mother who understands her perfectly, knowing that the only thing "wrong" with Mina is that maybe her brain is wired a little differently from most other people's. For far from being stupid or unteachable, Mina is very bright, perhaps too bright for her age, something that grown-ups often find unsettling and hard to deal with.
Here, in the tree, is where Mina spends much of her time, and where she does much of her own learning. Together they discuss all manner of strange subjects, many of which would never find their way into the curriculum, such as metempsychosis and astral travel, as well as more everyday but no less wonderful things like the arrival of spring and the hatching of the blackbird chicks in the tree where Mina likes to sit.
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