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    The Butterfly Lion
    The Butterfly Lion
    The Butterfly Lion
    Audiobook1 hour

    The Butterfly Lion

    Written by Michael Morpurgo and Christian Birmingham

    Narrated by Michael Morpurgo and Virginia Mckenna

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    “All my life I’ll think of you, I promise I will. I won’t ever forget you.”

    A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion.

    A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion.

    Bertie rescues an orphaned lion cub from the African veld. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see one another again, but it is the butterfly lion which ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 4, 2011
    ISBN9780007452859
    The Butterfly Lion
    Author

    Michael Morpurgo

    Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain’s best-loved writers for children. He has written over 130 books including War Horse, which was adapted for a hugely successful stage production by the National Theatre and then, in 2011, for a film directed by Steven Spielberg. Michael was Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005. The charity Farms for City Children, which he founded thirty years ago with his wife Clare, has now enabled over 70,000 children to spend a week living and working down on the farm. His enormous success has continued with his most recent novels Flamingo Boy and The Snowman, inspired by the classic story by Raymond Briggs. He was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.

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    • 4/5
      Quite short and the story is not as strong as other Morpurgo books