The Butterfly Lion

Author: Michael Morpurgo

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General Fields

  • : $13.95 AUD
  • : 9780006751038
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
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  • : 0.125
  • : January 1996
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Michael Morpurgo
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  • : Paperback
  • : 796
  • : Christian Birmingham
  • : English
  • : 823.914
  • : very good
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  • : 128
  • : YFB
  • : illustrations
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Barcode 9780006751038
9780006751038

Description

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 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 it is the butterfly lion which ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten.  

Promotion info

/ Key title 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. / Michael is a hugely successful author on the Collins list. / This is a moving novel, set in Africa and England, during the First World War. / This title has sold over 150,000 copies in its current form. / Rebranding this successful title coincides with the paperback edition of Dear Olly.  

Awards

Winner of Smarties Book Prize 6-8 Category 1996 and Smarties Book Prize Gold Award 1996.  

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Author description

Michael divides his time between his writing and running Farms for City Children, a charity which each year takes up to 3,000 children to a working farm for a week. Michael and his wife Clare were awarded MBEs this year for their work with the charity. Before the first farm opened 22 years ago, Morpurgo was a teacher and his knowledge of children's experiences, plus his experience of Farms enrich his writing enormously. Michael Morpurgo has won the Whitbread Children's Book Award, and the Smarties Book Prize.

 

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