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The Butterfly Lion
Deep in the burning African veld, a young boy rescues an orphaned white lion cub. But when the lion is sold to a circus and the friends are torn apart, how will their story end? This modern classic from Michael Morpurgo sweeps from a British boarding school to the African wilds, and from the First World War to the present day. It is a vivid and heartwarming story of friendship against all the odds.
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Barniecoles
1 Oct 2008
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this book is really good. it has lots of different emotions, happy, sad, excited, lonely. I recommend it to anyone who loves animals!
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30 Sep 2008
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i am reading this book at the moment and are loving it so far it is great i would recomend this to micial mipergo lovers
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Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo discovered his talent for writing while working as a teacher. “We had to read the children a story every day and my lot were bored by the book I was reading. I decided I had to do something and told them the kind of story I used to tell my kids - it was like a soap opera, and they focused on it. I could see there was magic in it for them, and realised there was magic in it for me.” Today, Michael has written over 100 books for children, and has won a multitude of awards as well as serving as Children’s Laureate from 2003-2005.
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Michael has won The Whitbread Prize For Wreck of the Zanzibar, the Smarties prize for The Butterfly Lion and the Children's Book Award for Kensuke's Kingdom and Private Peaceful.
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