Morpurgo, Michael

The butterfly lion [Text] Michael Morpurgo - 1st ed. Paperback - HarperCollins, 1996. - 124 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Winner of the Smarties Prize and the Writers' Guild Award. Bertie rescues an orphaned white 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.

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Children's stories, English
Human-animal relationship
Lion - Fiction


Animals


Literature & Rhetoric

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