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Margarita Engle: Plants, Poetry, and Persistence

Margarita Engle: Plants, Poetry, and Persistence

Update: 2021-10-04

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Join children's book authors Rajani LaRocca and Artemis Roehrig as they talk to agronomist and Newbery Honor-winning author Margarita Engle about Plants, Poetry, and Persistence.

Books recommended on this episode:

Sniffer Dogs: How Dogs (and Their Noses) Save the World

Nancy Castaldo (Author)

The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan

Amy Alznauer (Author) Daniel Miyares (Illustrator)

What's in Your Pocket?: Collecting Nature's Treasures

Heather L. Montgomery (Author) Maribel Lechuga (Illustrator)

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Margarita Engle: Plants, Poetry, and Persistence

Margarita Engle: Plants, Poetry, and Persistence