Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The 25 Best Picture Books of the Last 25 Years
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Lucy and Elizabeth are joined by guest host Rebecca Onion to dive into her and Dan Kois’ definitive list of the 25 best picture books of the last quarter century. Which modern stories have staying power? Which books belong beside the classics on your child’s shelf? The hosts debate and delight in the choices.
But first, they share their latest triumphs and fails: hiding snacks, an urgent care scare, and a deeply irrational fears.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. Welcome to Karen Feeding. We're here to talk about the ups, |
| 0:06.6 | the downs, and everything in between when it comes to parenting. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write |
| 0:10.8 | the homeschool family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, |
| 0:16.0 | and Teddy who's 8, and we are currently in Atlanta, Georgia. Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, The Mamasita Rica. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm Mother to Amelia, who's 15, Avery, who's 12, and we live in Miami, Florida. |
| 0:29.2 | And I'm Rebecca Onion, and I'm a senior editor at Slate. |
| 0:32.2 | I have one little kid. |
| 0:34.3 | Her name is Jane, and she's eight years old old and I live in Athens, Ohio. Every week we |
| 0:39.5 | answer your questions. We share our own parenting triumphs and fails and this week we're going to |
| 0:44.0 | dig into the massive world of children's books. Ooh, Elizabeth's favorite. It is my favorite. Rebecca's |
| 0:51.2 | here to talk about the 25 best picture books of the past 25 years. But first, |
| 0:56.9 | she may not know this yet, but she's going to join us for a round of triumphs and fails. |
| 1:01.1 | Rebecca is Olivia on the list? Because it's one of my family's favorite books, especially |
| 1:07.2 | mine. We'll get into that later, I promise. She's been dying to know, though. So we'll have to wait |
| 1:12.1 | until after the break. We'll be right back. The suspense is killing you. It was actually killing Lucy. |
| 1:17.6 | She texted me like 12 times. |
| 1:25.3 | Welcome back. It's time for triumphs and fails. Rebecca, can you tell us what's going on in your |
| 1:31.9 | world of parenting? And then you have to call it a triumph for a fail. Yes, I have one. This is one of those |
| 1:39.8 | ones where my husband and I have disagreed over how this behavior should be handled. |
| 1:45.5 | I'm diverging from how he would handle it. |
| 1:47.5 | So we don't have a very big house, but my child has developed a fear of being in the part |
| 1:53.7 | of the house where the bedrooms are without us. |
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