Destiny Finds Her Way: How a Rescued Baby Sloth Learned to Be Wild (Baby Animal Tales)

About the Author

Margarita Engle is a Newbery Honor–winning, Cuban-American author of many books about Cuba and Central America. She is a botanist and agronomist as well as a poet. Her STEM books include Bravo, Summer Birds, The Sky Painter, Mountain Dog, and Forest World, which received a Green Earth Book Award. Other awards include multiple Pura Belpré Awards, and the NSK Neustadt Prize. She lives in Central California with her husband.

Sam Trull has been a photographer and a wildlife biologist for decades. After multiple expeditions to Madagascar, West Africa, and Central America, in January 2013 she settled in Costa Rica, where she co-founded and is the executive director of the Sloth Institute. Her first photo book, Slothlove, was published in April 2016.