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The butterfly lion
The butterfly lion










the butterfly lion

It is an ideal story to read a chapter a day to your class. The Butterfly Lion is a book that should be shared. His students loved them and Michael realized that this was what he really wanted to do. He began to make up stories for his classes. He was born in 1943 and began teaching primary children after studying English and French in London, England. He, himself, tried to run away from school he read a book about a pride of white lions he met Virginia McKenna who championed the causes of all things born free he heard the true story of a soldier who rescued some circus animals in France and he saw a white horse carved on a chalky hillside in Wiltshire, England. Michael Morpurgo is the author of The Butterfly Lion and, in his preface, he tells of the inspiration and ideas for this book. Much later, while fighting in the war in France, he finds both the lion and Millie again. Bertie runs away from school and meets Millie. Bertie is heartbroken when he is sent away to boarding school in England, and the cub is sent to a circus.

the butterfly lion

A little boy named Bertie grows up in South Africa and befriends a lion cub.












The butterfly lion