Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will stimulate students. In 2008, YouTube.com showed an extraordinary clip of the reunion between two young men and their pet lion in Kenya. It was watched by millions of people around the world. A Lion Called Christian is the true story of two Australians who bought a pet lion cub called Christian in the 1970s and his subsequent journey to his rightful home in the wild.