The Princess and her Pantherillustrated by Lauren Stringer published by Beach Lane Books,
An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, USA 2010 ISBN-10: 1416997806 
ISBN-13: 9781416997801 Order now from: amazon.com
or indie bound or Allen and Unwin, Australia, 2010
ISBN 9781742374246 What do you get when you take: .๏ one brave big sister,
.๏ one not-so-brave little sister,
.๏ a spooky nighttime backyard,
๏ and heaps of imagination? The most magnificent campout ever! The world of imagination sparkles to life through vibrant illustrations, and the rhythmic text makes for a joyful read-aloud. Listen to the audio: Wendy Orr reads, accompanied by music composed by Matthew Smith or Watch the trailer: Awards.•The Best Children’s Books of the Year,
Children’s Book Committee, The Bank Street College of Education. .• Nominated for the Amelia Bloomer Project, Recommended
Feminist Literature from Birth to Age 18. Reviews.• Imagination is at the heart of this book as two sisters set out to camp in their backyard. Their red tent becomes a royal shelter, the wading pool a lake, and the sandbox is the desert they toil across. The princess is stalwart, but her little sister, the panther, is unnerved when night falls. Orr’s steady refrain is, “The princess was brave, and the panther tried to be,” and the timidity of the panther is purposefully revealed in the rich acrylic illustrations... a clever twist on the usual camping story and the fears that accompany it.
--School Library Journal .• A little girl and her younger sister have a great adventure in the backyard. After dark, though, it gets harder to be brave. Alert children will know that it’s not leaf snakes but leaves, not an owl-witch but an owl, not a great dog-wolf but the puppy next door that try their bravery. The pictures are in broad, rich swaths of acrylic colors that deepen into night and then lighten into morning. A warm and cozy tale of sisterly joy and sweet imagination.
--Kirkus Reviews | 
