The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo

'The Butterfly Lion' by Michael Morpurgo is an extremely good book. It
tells the story of a boy (we never find out his name) who runs away from
school and meets an old lady called Milly. She tells him a wonderful story
about a boy called Bertie, who finds a white lion cub in Africa. Then
Bertie has to go to boarding school in England and the lion cub is sold to a
French circus man.

Many years later, Bertie becomes a soldier and when he goes to France, he
sees the white lion again. He takes it to England and looks after it. The
old lady finishes her story by telling the boy that Bertie carved a lion out
of chalk. The best part of the story is to find out the magical ending, but
I won't tell you it, so you will have to read this book yourself.

'The Butterfly Lion' is easy to read and I recommend it to children aged six
and over. I really enjoyed it and it was very interesting. If you like it
too, you could go to Wiltshire to visit the lovely white horses made out of
chalk like my family did. These were what gave Michael Morpurgo the idea
for the story.

Review by Olivia (Aged 7)