Panther: Shadow of the Swamp

Panther: Shadow of the Swamp by London, Jonathan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781564026231.

Jonathan London and Paul Morin introduce one of the worlds most majestic and most endangered animals. A long, thick tail twitches in the saw grass. A shadow flows. It is Panther. Deep in the Florida Everglades is a unique and fragile ecosystem of interconnected lakes, rivers, and wetlands. Here egrets preen. Alligators float with eyes like periscopes. Here, among the swamp grass and shadows, threatened by habitat loss, live fewer than fifty Florida panthers, the last of the big cats east of the Mississippi River. With lyrical text and stunning oil paintings, Jonathan London and Paul Morin bring young readers face to face with a rare and elusive wild creature who is as fierce a predator as she is tender a mother.