Today’s selected stories were :
- Drum Dream Girl : How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Rafael Lopez
- On a Beam of Light : A Story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne, pictures by Vladimir Radunsky
- I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott, illustrated by Sydney Smith
Drum Dream Girl won the Pura Belpre medal in the year after it was published. I Talk Like a River won the 2021 Schneider Family Book Award.