The Cats of Shambala

Theodore Taylor, Tippi Hedren. McGraw-Hill Companies, $9.95 (287pp) ISBN 978-0-07-027779-3

While working on a film about lions, actress Hedren and her husband, director Noel Marshall (The Exorcist, acquired some 100 lions and other big cats and kept them at Shambala, their home north of Los Angeles. PW determined that this story would ""appeal to animal lovers.'' (December)

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