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: