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.

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. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, until the day he meets with the wrong end of a bee. Just the one for the bull fights in Madrid So they took him away for the. here was the largest and fiercest bull of all. The five men saw him and they all shouted with joy. he ran around puffing and snorting, butting and pawing the ground as if he were crazy. This cow is no coward –he simply has his priorities clear. Wow Did it hurt Ferdinand jumped up with a snort. 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. One of the bestselling children’s books of all time, this simple story of peace and contentment has withstood the test of many generations. I know it isn’t probably the answer that one is expecting to say, “Oh no, it was the first time I read Much Ado About Nothing of Shakespeare,” or something. One can only keep so many copies of the same children’s book, but that was a book that inspired me as a very young child. I still think of that book, and every time I mention it somebody sends me another copy of Ferdinand the Bull. I love Ferdinand the Bull because Ferdinand didn’t look like the rest of the animals and therefore had to think highly of himself to sort of get on in life. “When I was about five, I read a book that still remains one of my favorites, and I give it to all of the little children in my family, and it’s Ferdinand the Bull.

Ferdinand the bull story book