The Best Picture Books of 2025

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4.9 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Are celebrities worthy authors for our children? Is there still a place for highly detailed illustrations? Anthony Wheeler, Lee White, and Jake Parker discuss recent trends in indie kidlit, the evolution of the illustration industry, and more in this episode.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective, the podcast about illustration, how to do it,
0:09.3	how to make a living at it, and how to make an impact in the world with your art. I'm Jake Parker.
0:13.5	I'm Lee White. And I'm Anthony Wheeler. Gentlemen, how about we discuss things in the news this week?
0:19.8	Okay. First item of business I want to
0:21.8	bring up here is a picture worth a thousand words. This is an article posted by publishers weekly.
0:28.9	The big indie children's books of fall 2025. And I thought it'd be fun to kind of go through these
0:36.8	books and see what's really hidden,
0:39.1	what's getting reported on.
0:40.9	And what we can glean from this and learn from this.
0:45.9	And before we get into that, I'm going to share my screen here.
0:48.4	Before we get into that, what classifies you as an indie publisher?
0:54.9	Do you guys have any idea?
0:56.5	Like the technical definition of like how you get into that category formally?
1:00.7	Yeah, because it says here,
1:01.7	these are the big indie children's books of fall.
1:04.1	It says this season's hottest indie press releases,
1:07.1	including inventive picture books
1:09.3	and a lushly illustrated middle grade mystery with a touch
1:12.1	of bling. So yeah, what is, what is an independent press? It's a good, it's a good question
1:18.1	because at some point, like, I mean, obviously we know that that's not going to be the big five
1:23.0	publishers and an independent press, but isn't, is being a company a requirement?
1:29.1	Could somebody be a self-publish?
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