by Michael Morpurgo · HarperCollins Publishers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006751038
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«The Butterfly Lion» is the children's and young adult novel by Michael Morpurgo, published by HarperCollins Publishers in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Bertie grows up in Africa and rescues an orphaned white lion cub; an inseparable friendship is born between them. When he is sent to boarding school in England, the lion is sold to a circus, but the memory and the promise of reunion endure. The butterfly lion becomes the symbol of that bond.
Winner of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in the 6-8 years category in 1996. Illustrated by Christian Birmingham.
Recommended for young readers aged 9 to 11, especially for those who enjoy stories of friendship and animals set in Africa.
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
