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The Butterfly Lion | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Morpurgo
Creator: Christian Birmingham
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 595096
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0006751032
EAN: 9780006751038
ASIN: 0006751032
Publication Date: May 7, 1996
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Condition: Some wear on book from reading, some spine creases, wear on binding and pages, we guarantee all purchases and ship all items via USPS mail.
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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.
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 Butterfly Lion November 19, 2008
Excellent! I read this aloud at night with my daughters, ages 9 & 7. We ALL loved it. Morgpurgo quickly draws you in to feel compassion for the lion and for the boy. They both lose each other in Africa and then reunite years later in war-torn Europe, as grown man and adult lion. Mr. Morpurgo takes his reader through the sadness of loss and then through the happiness of triumph...and throws in a bit of a twist at the end. My daughters will definitely re-read this book on their own. A perfect choice for birthday & Christmas gifts.
 The butterfly lion January 7, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is story about a boy who runs away from school and finds a grandma on the way back to his house. The grandma takes him to her house. while their, he looks out the window and he sees a butterfly lion and the grandma tells him the story of how the butterfly lion got there! I am in the 4th grade,and I liked the book because it was very exciting. I did not like it because it was a little hard for me to understand. I would recomend this book for the 5th grade and up.
Butterfly lion February 1, 2002
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a very great book for children 3rd through 6th grade. It was a story about adopted lion of a young boy, then the lion is forced to go. Later in the boys life he reilizes what the lion ment to him. This is a sad story or a happy story. It is you who will chose.
This book captured my imagination May 19, 1999
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This story is the winner of the Smarties Prize and Writers Guild award. A boy called Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African Veldt. 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 never forgets their friendship.I would recommend this story to nine to thirteen year olds. I would give this story a mark of ten out of ten for being so interesting and capturing my imagination. My best character was the butterfly lion because I felt really sorry for him that he left his friend to go to the circus. My favourite part is when the butterflies fly away from the chalk picture of the lion on the hillside.
Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award Nominee - Yr 2000 April 21, 1999
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This title was appreciated by enough students and professional librarians and teachers to make the Year 2000 list of nominees for Illinois' childrens' choice award named after the Illinois author Rebecca Caudill. This book is best for grades 4-6. A sweet frame story set in England containing many elements popular with young readers: animals, family, tragedy, and (surprisingly) a ghost!
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