NPR's A Martinez speaks with historian and legal scholar Peter Conti-Brown about Wednesday's vote of the Federal Reserve's rate-setting body, which saw two dissenting votes.

Brown released the first book in 2016 through Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, followed by its sequels, 2018’s The Wild Robot Escapes and 2023’s The Wild Robot Protects.

Peter Brown was in Manhattan’s meatpacking district in 2002 when he noticed a few hardy branches dangling from a dingy overpass near Gansevoort Street. “I thought, That’s strange,” Brown said.