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The Butterfly Lion by: Michael Morpurgo List Price: £4.99 Childrens Bookshop Price: £2.99 You Save: £2.00 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780006751038 ISBN: 0006751032 Label: Collins Manufacturer: Collins Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: May 07, 1996 Publisher: Collins Studio: Collins Sales Rank: 415 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Synopsis: ILLUSTRATED BY CHRISTIAN BIRMINGHAM. A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion. "All my life I'll think you you, I promise I will. I won't ever forget you." 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. From the Author: The Butterfly Lion grew from several magical roots: The memories of a small boy who tried to run away from school a long time ago; a book about a pride of white lions discovered by Chris McBride; a chance meeting in a lift with Virginia McKenna, actress and champion of lions and all creatures born free; a true story of a soldier of the First World War who rescued some circus animals in France from certain death; and the sighting from a train of a white horse carved out on a chalky hillside near Westbury in Wiltshire. To Chris McBride, Virigina McKenna and Gina Pollinger - many many thanks. And to you the reader - enjoy it! Michael Morpurgo (FEB 1996) From the Back Cover: "All my life I'll think of you, I promise I will. I won't ever forget you." 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 the butterfly lion ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten. Excerpted from The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo, Christian Birmingham. Copyright © 1996. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.: Chilblains and Semolina Pudding Butterflies lead very short lives. They flower and flutter for just a few glorious weeks and then they die. To see them, you have to be in the right place at the right time. And that's how it was when I saw the butterfly lion - I happened to be in just the right place, at just the right time. I didn't dream any of it. I saw him, blue and shimmering in the sun, one afternoon in June when I was young. A long time ago. But I don't forget. I mustn't forget. I promised them I wouldn't. I was ten, and away at boarding school in deepest Wiltshire. I was far from home and I didn't want to be. It was a diet of latin and stew and rugby and detentions and cross-country runs and chilblains and marks and squeaky beds and semolina pudding. And then there was Basher Beaumont who terrorised and tormented me, so that I lived every waking moment of my life in dread of him. I had often thought of running away, but only once ever plucked up the courage to do it. I was homesick after a letter from my mother. Basher Beaumont had cornered me in the bootroom and smeared black boot polish in my hair. I had done badly in a spelling test, and Mr Carter had stood me in the corner with a book on my head all through the lesson - his favourithe torture. I was more miserable than I had ever been before. I picked at the plaster on the wall, and determined there and then that I would run away. Average Rating:
 Rating: - butterfly lionthe book makes you feel that you are in the achual in the story when you get into it. it has a mixture of sad times happy times and even some funny times. Rating: - THE BEST BOOK I'VE EVER READ *****Im 12 And I Read This Book When I Was 11 It Is Heart Warming And A Truely Moving Story, I Felt So Involved With The Story As If It Was Happening Infront Of Me, It Made Me Cry And 2 Parts, And I Advise EVERYBODY To Read It x The Best Book Ever Made x Rating: - You won't be disappointed!The Butterfly Lion is a book about a boy, Bertie, who lives in Africa. It is a great read because it is well written, the words flow and make you feel that you are part of the story. Also, the descriptions are so good that you can picture in your head what Africa looks like! The story is exciting and mysterious; it really starts after a couple of chapters when one day, at the waterhole somewhere in South Africa around 1904, Bertie sees a mummy lion with her cubs (one of the babies ... Read More: Rating: - Georgia Humbert's book reviewThe butterfly lion is one of the best books I have read and I couldn't stop reading it! The story has a boy called Bertie, and he rescued a white lion cub but his father is going to sell the lion. Bertie thinks the only thing he can do is set him back into the wild. Then Bertie is sent to Boarding School in England and he will have to leave his home in Africa. When Bertie grows up he has to go to war and got injured but saved two people by carrying them back to camp and wins the lifesaving badge. ... Read More: Rating: - Brilliant!When I decided to use this book for guided reading I thought I'd better read it myself first (always a good idea!) and what a good job I did - I cried my eyes out. We were devastated when the cub was sold to the circus and thought that would be the end of it...how wrong we were. A wonderful story enjoyed by a snivelling teacher and class 5. |
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