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Loading... The Story of Ferdinand (Picture Puffin)by Munro Leaf
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A long book with a relatively short, simple (but satisfying) story. Ferdinand alone of all the bulls has no interest in fighting, but an accidental encounter with a bee leads to him catching the eye of the bullfight recruiters. They take him to the arena, he refuses to fight, they take him back home, he lives happily ever after. (  ) michelleknudsen | Dec 6, 2009 |  This is my favorite book from my childhood. Ferdinand, the pacifist bull who loves smelling flowers, is thrust into a Madrid bull-fighting ring. The black and white pictures are beautifully drawn. Munro Leaf's message about being true to yourself shows kids that it's okay to be different. (  ) readasaurus | May 1, 2009 | While the other bulls spend their days fighting, Ferdinand passes time by smelling the pretty flowers. When the men come to choose which bull will fight the matador, Ferdiand sits on a bee. The men believe he is a fierce, strong fighter and bring him to Madrid for the big bull fight. The black and white illustrations enhance the text, making this a very fun story. (  ) MrsBond | Feb 1, 2009 | Classic Ferdinand story. Ferdinand wants to smell flowers all day but when the bullfighters come to choose a bull, he is stung by a bee and puts on quite a show. He ends up in the ring, but only wants to smell the flowers in the pretty lady's hair, so they take him back home. The illustrations are funny. This is definitely a kids' story. Adults would be thinking about what would REALLY happen to an inept bull in the ring... ( ) madu | Jan 26, 2009 | Ferdinand is a funny story about a bull who was very different than all the other bulls, and he loved flowers. This book is a very funny story about how Ferdinand traveled all the way to Spain to compete in a bull arena. (  ) whitneyharrison | Oct 23, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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What else can be said about the fabulous Ferdinand? Published more than 50 years ago (and one of the bestselling children's books of all time), this simple story of peace and contentment has withstood the test of many generations. Ferdinand is a little bull who much prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree-- just smelling the flowers--to jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. This cow is no coward--he simply has his pacifist priorities clear. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, until the day he meets with the wrong end of a bee. In a show of bovine irony, the one day Ferdinand is most definitely not sitting quietly under the cork tree (due to a frightful sting), is the selfsame day that five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid.
Ferdinand's day in the arena gives readers not only an education in the historical tradition of bullfighting, but also a lesson in nonviolent tranquility. Robert Lawson's black-and-white drawings are evocative and detailed, with especially sweet renditions of Ferdinand, the serene bull hero. The Story of Ferdinand closes with one of the happiest endings in the history of happy endings--readers of all ages will drift off to a peaceful sleep, dreaming of sweet-smelling flowers and contented cows.
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