ILLUSTRATED BY CHRISTIAN BIRMINGHAM. A lyrical & moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, & his lifelong friendship with a white lion. ” All my life I`ll think you you, I promise I will. I won`t ever forget you.” Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England & the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see one another again, but it is the butterfly lion which ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten.