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."