Cougar Crossing: How Hollywood's Celebrity Cougar Helped Build a Bridge for City Wildlife

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Discover the amazing true story of P-22, the wild cougar living in Los Angeles, in this inspiring picture book.

P-22, the famed Hollywood Cougar, was born in a national park near Los Angeles, California. When it was time for him to leave home and stake a claim to his own territory, he embarked on a perilous journeysomehow crossing sixteen lanes of the worlds worst trafficto make his home in LAs Griffith Park, overlooking the famed Hollywood sign. But Griffith Park is a tiny territory for a mountain lion, and P-22s life has been filled with struggles.

Residents of Los Angeles have embraced this brave cougar as their own and, along with the scientists monitoring P-22, raised money to build a wildlife bridge across Highway 101 to help cougars and other wildlife safely expand their territories and build new homesensuring their survival for years to come.

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Meeg Pincus, MA, has been a nonfiction writer and editor for over twenty years. In addition to being an author of childrens nonfiction and informational books, she is a humane educator who inspires students to care for people, animals, and the planet. Meeg lives in San Diego.

Originally from New Mexico,Alexander Vidalstudied cultural anthropology and spent time living in Africa and Asia before starting his career in illustration. Travel, exploration, and a love of animals and wild spaces continue to drive the themes of his work. He is the illustrator of the board bookSo Many Feet; nonfiction family activity bookI Love Birds!: 52 Ways to Wonder, Wander, and Explore Birds with Kids; and picture booksCougar Crossing!,Just You and Me, andThe Bone Wars. He is a graduate of ArtCenter College of Design and lives in Los Angeles.