The Butterfly Lion - Michael Morpurgo

I've recently been looking for some slightly longer books to read with my daughter and Michael Morpurgo is an author that I like very much. The latest story of his that we have read is The Butterfly Lion, which is a most heart, warming story going back to the First World War. It is actually a story within a story as it starts in the present and then due to a chance meeting between a small boy and an old lady, goes back in time as she tells him her story! At the start of the book we meet the teller of the story - a young boy whose name we don't know. He is very unhappy at his boarding school so one Sunday, decides that he has had enough and runs away. However, ...  Read the complete review