As you may have seen in Zoella's vlogmas day 12 then you would have seen that they watch the video about Christian the Lion. It is such a heart warming story and you can see the reunion and I will link it to the bottom of this blog (fair warning: you will cry).
I love the story and bought the children's book when I was about 9, and there is also a DVD and a grown up story of the book which I recently ordered..
If you do not want to buy the book or DVD I thought I would a little bit of background to the story:
In 1969 Anthony Bourke and John Rendall went to Harrods to do some Christmas shopping and they saw two lion cubs on sale, after much debate with their own thoughts they bought one of them and named it Christian.
They convinced the local vicar to let them exercise Christian in the garden of the local church but John and Ace soon realised that Christian was getting too big so enlisted the help of George who invited Christian to join the pride of lions he was trying to introduce back into the wild in Africa.
He befriended the lioness called Katrina but had trouble with Boy, enventually he was accepted and Christian was part of the pride so John and Ace decided it was time for them to leave.
A year later John and Ace wanted to visit but was told that Christian was wild now and would not remember them but they went anyway. After many hours of searching for Christian this is what happened:
I bet you cried right?
I hope you love the story just as much as I do
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