Butterfly Lion (Bilingual Chinese-English, Illustration Collectible Edition)

Author: (English) Morpurgo, translated by Xing Jiahui
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
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Winner of the UK Children's Book Award (2003-2005).
A must-read for teenagers in Europe and America, a global classic that nourishes the soul.
The best gift for understanding life.
Award-winning work of the prestigious "Smarties Award" and the UK Writers' Guild Award.
Recommended by The Sunday Times, BBC, and the Chairman of the Smarties Award Selection Committee.
Translated into dozens of languages, this heartwarming bilingual classic is a pure and beautiful gift for growing up.
This is a book filled with great love. I believe this book "can reduce darkness, worries, and conflicts, while increasing light, order, peace, and tranquility" – Professor Lan Dizhi, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University, renowned literary critic.
As an animal, the butterfly lion is unique; as a book, Butterfly Lion is also extremely rare.
Butterfly Lion touches the hearts of everyone – young and old. – Founder of the "Born Free" Foundation, Virginia McKenna, Patron of the Asia Animal Fund.
Butterfly Lion tells a story of loneliness and love in a way that resonates with young readers. – Julia Eccleshare, Chairman of the Smarties Award Selection Committee.
A mysterious and incredible story with a magical charm that invites readers to savor it again and again. – Jenny Morris, Smarties Award Selection Committee Member.
This vivid novel is truly a masterpiece of our time. – Junior Education.
This is the most beautiful novel I have read in a long time. – Wendy Cullin, BBC Radio Host.
Morpurgo's works perfectly blend purity, depth, and rich emotion, with exceptional writing skills and deeply moving storytelling. – The Sunday Times.
This is a mysterious and touching story between a boy and a white lion: A young boy faces grievances at boarding school and decides to skip class one rainy day. While running away, he seeks shelter at an old woman's house. She uses stories to take him to the African savanna, the homeland of a boy who attended the same school decades earlier and had also skipped class.
How did the boy, Bertan, meet the white lion? After the lion was sold to a circus, how did they reunite? And how did the white lion and the blue Adonis blue butterfly transform into the "Butterfly Lion," lingering on the mountain for so long?
Pure hearts, precious innocence, deep friendships, and unchanging vows – all embody a heartwarming power. Like a chance encounter in life, it gently washes over us, allowing our souls to grow.
Humans are creatures that need to connect with all things. As the "rational being," our essence lies in stepping beyond our own boundaries to understand different species, different lives, and different worlds. It is the boy's compassion for the motherless lion cub that fosters their lifelong friendship, giving us a new understanding and appreciation of life.
Suitable for readers aged 9 and above, this is the best gift for the soul and the best book to interpret life. In this materialistic era filled with indifference and desolation, this touching work brimming with warmth and imagination is a balm for the heart and a guardian of innocence.