Michael Morpurgo -The Butterfly Lion - Reading

Click to subscribe: For more information: _____________________________________________________ To celebrate the release of the Collector’s Edition of the Butterfly Lion, watch Michael reading an extract and talking about the inspiration behind the book. 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. You have the chance to buy the signed Deluxe edition of The Butterfly Lion here: