[An] INSIGHTFUL, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN work.
… [THE LADY AND THE PANDA and SEABISCUIT] both deal with bigger issues: loss, fate, love, and the way animals emotionally can touch human beings.
-- USA Today

Altogether FASCINATING …
-- The New York Times, Sunday Book Review


A REAL-LIFE INDIANA JONES ADVENTURE … [that] seems to grab hold of people and refuse to let go … Croke lived her story and it shows …
-- Chicago Tribune

                                                                                                            GOOD MORNING AMERICA

 
… STRANGER THAN FICTION BUT NO LESS POIGNANT. … just enough romance, rivalry, victory, disappointment and redemption … it stakes everything on exotic glamour.
-- The New York Times

EVOCATIVE AND SATISFYING, The Lady and the Panda is the sort of adventure story that cries out for a film version starring Kate Hepburn.

-- People Magazine
[31/2 Stars out of 4]


                                                                                                                                        Vogue magazine
REMARKABLY CINEMATIC, real-life adventure …
-- Entertainment Weekly

… FASCINATING …
-- Entertainment Weekly's "Must List"


ASTONISHING … LYRICALLY DESCRIPTIVE … PAGE-TURNER 
-- The Washington Post