by Michael Morpurgo · n/a · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007874781
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«The Butterfly Lion» is Michael Morpurgo's children's novel, in paperback and in English.
A boy meets a white lion on the African savannah and forms a friendship with him that will shape his life. The story speaks of love, loss and the connection between living beings, with illustrations by Christian Birmingham that recreate that landscape.
The work was awarded the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1996, in the 6 to 8 years category.
Aimed at young readers and useful for students aged 10 to 11.
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.
