We’re continuing our Best Books of 2025 coverage with a special episode dedicated to picture books. First, Patricia Morris Buckley joins us to discuss To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities, illustrated by E.B. Lewis (Heartdrum, Jan. 28). Then young readers’ editor Mahnaz Dar dishes on more of the year’s best books.

Thanks to our sponsors:

• The History of Lightning by Anthony Dwanye Webb
• Into the Gray Scale by Oge Mobuogwu
• Maybe I’m Not God by Stefania Gander, trans. by Chiara Gastaldi
• The Judgy Bunny by Gramma Sir 

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