![]() One evening, when Bertie is about six years old, he spots a lioness drinking in the waterhole and just behind her a young lion cub - but it was white!Ī few weeks later, after not seeing the white lion cub and lioness, Bertie's father comes home triumphant that he has killed a huge lioness that he claims was taken half a dozen of his best cattle. There he would watch the baboons, the zebras, wildebeest, elephants, and most exciting of all a pride of lions. To occupy his time he spends day after day gazing out at the wonders of the veldt from the safe confines of the farmhouse compound. There Bertie is secluded and only has his mother and father for companionship. The reminiscence takes the pair back to Bertie's birthplace, a small village called Timbavati, in a remote area of South Africa. ![]() ![]() She recounts his story to a schoolboy who has just run away from boarding school and taken shelter from the rain, all the while gazing out the window at the "butterfly lion" that is mysteriously emblazoned on the hillside. The novel is the story of a young boy, Bertie, as told through the memory of an elderly woman who knew him. ![]() ![]() But instead of a friendship between two people, much like his earlier works, The Butterfly Lion focuses largely on the friendship between a boy and an animal. Following in the same vain as the hugely successful War Horse and The Dancing Bear, Michael Morpurgo's The Butterfly Lion has the theme of friendship running through its narrative. ![]()
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