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The Butterfly Lion
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- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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Summary
“All my life I’ll think of you, I promise I will. I won’t ever forget you.”
A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion.
A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion.
Bertie rescues an orphaned 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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"The Butterfly Lion is unique among animals and books, and will touch all hearts – both young and old.” (Virginia McKenna, Born Free Foundation)
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- Anne
- 12-12-20
Excellent
An amazing book as per my 8 year old daughter!! Full of personality and imagination.
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- Karen Treacy
- 30-04-19
brilliant ! a real mind turner!
I really enjoyed this audio book. I read this book in school and was delighted to listen to it again on audible.It has a great plot twist and is a real cliffhanger.
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- Hoppers
- 22-06-19
Sweet and noustalgic
I listened to this repeatedly when I was a child, and love the gentle narration!
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- robert m.
- 03-02-21
Wonderful
Wonderful book beautifully narrated. Loved it. Used to listen to this when I was younger many memories
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- Andrew
- 03-04-24
A real treat
Narrated brilliantly by the author and Virginia McKenna, this is well worth a listen for all ages.
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- Marie Clifton
- 29-05-23
Amazing 🤩
Great book for children and adults who like lions and adventure. Michael Morpurgo is a great author
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- Sian-Marie Barrett
- 24-07-24
Wow what a beautiful story
Beautiful bitter sweet story, very well narrated. This book was recommended to me by my 7 year old book worm daughter and I’m so glad she did. Reminded me a lot of the war horse story also written by Morpurgo
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- Isabella p.
- 16-09-19
amazing
love it could not stop listening read this for 6 years and never gets old I love that it's on adible mean I can listen to it everywhere.
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-02-24
brilliant
a wonderful moving story to be enjoyed by all ages. highly recommend this Morpurgo book.
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- Lucy
- 02-05-24
The love for the lion was so real
My children and I loved this story and we were all captivated by the stories that the old lady was telling the boy . We all talked after about the twist at the end .
It’s a lovely story bringing history , geography and love all together for a whole family to be captivated .
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