Because you get so involved with the story, you have to know what happens next. But this was a book I read in one whole go. Sometimes I read quickly, other times I read slowly. He even sleeps at the end of Bertie's bed. Well, you've probably never seen a lion live in a house before, but that's what he ends up doing. Have you ever seen a white lion before? No? Between them, they gathered up the mud-matted cub and brought him home.'Īfter five baths, he was finally clean, and completely white. When Bertie turned around, he saw his mother in her night gown, rifle in hand, running towards him down the hill. The hyenas bolted into the long grass and were gone.

They stood and watched, uncertain for a while, then they began to circle again. Then he was at the water hole,Īnd between the lion cub and the hyenas, shouting at them to go away. Once within range, Bertie hurled a broadside of pebbles at them, and they ran off again. Startled at this sudden intrusion, the hyenas turned-tail and ran. 'He threw open the gate, and charged down the hill towards the water hole, yelling and screaming, and waving his arms like a wild thing. And when, one morning, he sees a baby lion cub trying to escape from some hungry hyenas, Bertie rushes out to rescue it. But it's the lions, Bertie likes best of all. Sitting high up in a tree, or looking out of his window, Bertie watches the beautiful elephants, giraffes and zebras come down to the water hole. He lives with his parents, on a remote farm in the wild countryside of South Africa. This book, The Butterfly Lion, is such a wonderful story.

The butterfly lion