Buy it for the kids and when they're asleep, read it yourself and marvel in this beautiful little story. And if you're a big kid like me, you adults will too. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the. Yes, it is for children and it is very basic in its writing style and all those things but the depth of story for such a short piece was fantastic and although it was a little far-fetched (rightly so it is a children's book after all) I caught myself smiling throughout the hour it took me to complete. Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. Well, lordy, how wrong I was! I loved it. It wasn't going to fulfil me, I thought it won't be my type of thing. After looking through the blurb I noticed that this was a children's book. English This is a moving story of a young boy who rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African bush. I'd briefly flicked through it after buying and noticed that a) it was very thin - around 125 pages and b) the writing was quite large. I bought it to complete a Goodreads challenge but after looking at it several times as I was browsing my bookshelf I was reluctant to read it. I've had this book on my TBR shelf for a few months now. Following the incredible stage and screen success of War Horse, the novels of Michael Morpurgo have suddenly found a new wider audience, drawn to the heartbreakingly honest stories he tells of.
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