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Ferdinand knew that they wouldn’t pick him and he didn’t care. All the other bulls ran around snorting and butting, leaping and jumping so the men would think that they were very very strong and fierce and pick them. One day five men came in very funny hats to pick the biggest, fastest roughest bull to fight in the bull fights in Madrid.

But not Ferdinand–he still liked to sit just quietly under the cork tree and smell the flowers. What they wanted most of all was to be picked to fight at the bull fights in Madrid. They would butt each other and stick each other with their horns. All the other bulls who had grown up with him in the same pasture would fight each other all day. “I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers.” His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy.Īs the years went by Ferdinand grew and grew until he was very big and strong. “Why don’t you run and play with the other little bulls and skip and butt your head?” she would say. She was afraid he would be lonesome all by himself. Sometimes his mother, who was a cow, would worry about him. It was his favourite tree and he would sit in its shade all day and smell the flowers. He had a favorite spot out in the pasture under a cork tree. He liked to sit just quietly and smell the flowers. All the other little bulls he lived with would run and jump and butt their heads together, but not Ferdinand. Once upon a time in Spain there was a little bull and his name was Ferdinand. The book was released nine months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, but was still seen by many supporters of Francisco Franco as a pacifist book.

He sits in the middle of the bull ring failing to take heed of any of the provocations of the matador and others to fight.

The children’s book tells the story of a bull who would rather smell flowers than fight in bullfights. The Story of Ferdinand (1936) is the best known work written by American author Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson. FFerdinand would rather smell flowers than fight in bullfights.