It’s always a bit difficult because you never know until you sit down and it’s performed what is going to be different.” “I’ll see the play for the first time in about a month. But Daniel is very good at it and I have great confidence in him, otherwise I wouldn’t let him. “The big challenge is who I let adapt it, I have to careful. So, is Michael nervous seeing one of his favourite books go to the stage? Bertie promises to find the lion one day.įighting in France in the First World War, Bertie is reunited with the lion. When living in Africa, Bertie rescued a white lion cub, but was forced to part with it and the lion was sold to a circus. The book, first published in 1996, tells the tale of a young boy who runs away from boarding school and meets an old woman who tells him the story of the butterfly lion. He said: “Of all the books I’ve written it’s always in the top two or three of children’s favourites and I like what they like.” The prolific children’s author has written over 120 books and he was very glad when one of his favourites, Butterfly Lion, was chosen for a stage adaptation. Since his 1982 novel War Horse exploded onto the stage and subsequently onto the big screen, interest in Michael Morpurgo’s extensive back catalogue has sky-rocketed.
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