![]() ![]() ![]() Magic enters the novel at an appropriate moment, and the conclusion is sweet. ![]() How did it come to be there? The old woman tells him the remarkable story of Bertie, who as a boy found a white lion in Africa and was later obliged to give him to a European circus. There, fed delicious scones, he looks out the window upon the hillside to see a huge shape of a lion, switching from white to blue. and semolina pudding""), only to meet an old woman who invites him in for tea. A boy runs away from his strict boarding school (""It was a diet of Latin and stew and rugby and detentions. The story, about a boy who gives his white lion immortality, moves gracefully through frequent switches from past to present, from first to third person, from the English countryside to pre-WWI South Africa. ![]() Winner of a Smarties Gold Medal, Morpurgo's (The Wreck of the Zanzibar) cozy, well-executed British novel may not survive the jump across the ocean-the climax depends on a casual reference likely to be lost on American readers. ![]()
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