Michael Murpurgo Tom's sausage lion

But it's true', Tom shouted.

'It was a real lion, I know it was'.

No-one believes Tom when he says he has seen a lion - padding around the orchard with a string of sausages in its mouth! No-one, that is, except for Clare, the cleverest girl in the class.

Together, she and Tom plan to prove his story is true - by catching the lion!.