Five Questions for Ibi Zoboi and Juanita Londoño
First Day Around the World by Ibi Zoboi, illus. by Juanita Londoño; Versify/HarperCollins.

Learning from each other
George & Lenny Are Always Together by Jon Agee; Rocky Pond/Penguin.
Bunny Made Tea by Amanda Baehr Fuller; Owlkids.
Punch!: A Story About Kindness by Michael Hall; Greenwillow.
Tiger, Don’t Worry! by Daishu Ma; Post Wave.
Warm and Fuzzy by Scott Rothman, illus. by Brian Won; Tundra.
Bianca and the Butterfly by Sergio Ruzzier; Harper/HarperCollins.
The Creature of Habit Tries His Best by Jennifer E. Smith, illus. by Leo Espinosa; Random House Studio/Random.
Toto by Hyewon Yum; Porter/Holiday.

Learning visually
J vs. K by Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft, illus. by Jerry Craft; Little, Brown.  
Fresh Start by Gale Galligan, color by K Czap; Graphix/Scholastic.
Very Bad at Math by Hope Larson; HarperAlley/HarperCollins.
Swing by Audrey Meeker, color by Sarah Davidson; Feiwel. 
The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud; Graphix/Scholastic.

Learning from the past

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming; Schwartz/Random.   
A Most Perilous World: The True Story of the Young Abolitionists and Their Crusade Against Slavery by Kristina R. Gaddy; Dutton.
A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools by Debbie Levy; Bloomsbury. 
Fight AIDS!: How Activism, Art, and Protest Changed the Course of a Deadly Epidemic and Reshaped a Nation by Michael G. Long; Norton.
Hick: The Trailblazing Journalist Who Captured Eleanor Roosevelt’s Heart by Sarah Miller; Random House Studio/Random.

From the July 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.