The Butterfly Lion: Michael Morpurgo

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It is in this foreign land that Bertie discovers what has become of the lion cub or ‘Le Prince Blanc’ as he is also known. It employs an unusual structure of being told but this doesn't distract from the power of the words. With his wife Clare, he set up the charity Farms for City Children, which offers children and teachers from inner-city primary schools the chance to live and work in the countryside for a week on one of the charity’s three farms in Devon, Gloucestershire and Wales. I feel that this book is very effective in introducing the serious emotions that children may experience. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.

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We are kept wondering about the fate of the lion, whilst following Bertie’s journey from boyhood to life as a soldier in the French trenches during WWI. We're told by the author that The Butterfly Lion grew from several magical roots: the memories of a small boy who tried to run away from school a long time ago; a book about a pride of white lions discovered by Chris McBride; a chance meeting in a lift with Virginia McKenna, actress and champion of lions and all creatures born free; a true story of a soldier of the First World War who rescued some circus animals in France from certain death; and the sighting from a train of a white horse carved out on a chalky hillside near Westbury in Wiltshire. Morpurgo has never written a lovelier story and the simple drawings of Christian Birmingham, an illustrator i love, really grace the whole thing. He sits outside the series-driven blockbusters so beloved of publishers nowadays: he hasn't created a Harry Potter or an Alex Rider – and I admire him for resisting that.England - KS1/KS2 English: Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read. However, the war began in 1939 so Michael's evacuation cannot have been triggered by the start of the war. Read The Butterfly Lion over the course of several days, using the opportunity to discuss, compare and analyse it.

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The book was adapted into a stage play by Daniel Buckroyd of the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, which toured the UK in 2014. I found it particularly popular with the boys, given it's themes of boarding school; wild outback country; tree climbing; and war.Yes he does and the adventure continues, a heartwarming tale which jumps from the present to the past effortlessly. g. as he grows up with his dad away working and his mum teaching him on their compound, when he first sees the white lion and her cub, when he is allowed to keep the cub when he is told that he will be going to England). for example,not greiving at your father's death because you 'didn't know him well enough to love him' and like how the white lion almost instantly recognized his master at once, after all those years .