Ferdinand is the titular main protagonist of the film of the same name and of the book that the film is based on, The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf. Ferdinand is a big bull with a big heart who would rather smell flowers than participate in bullfighting. He was mistaken for a dangerous beast...
William Munro Leaf was the author of some thirty popular books for children. During his lifetime, "The Story of Ferdinand" (1936), his tale about a Spanish bull who would rather smell flowers than ...
On , a boyish-looking ex-lightweight champion of Harvard named Munro Leaf published a 64-page children’s book called Ferdinand. It was the tale of a Spanish bull that refused to ...
Star Democrat: Maryland's Munro Leaf was author of 'Ferdinand the Bull' and 'Wee Gillis'
Maryland's Munro Leaf was author of 'Ferdinand the Bull' and 'Wee Gillis'
The beloved children’s book “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, was published in 1936. But the simple, pacifist story about a bull who would rather smell ...
Blue Sky finds the heart of Munro Leaf's beloved picture book, about a Spanish bull who refuses to fight, in this delightful CG toon. Of course, there’s a world of difference between a seven-minute ...
The census in 1940 found Munro Leaf living at Smoke Tree Ranch in Palm Springs with his wife and one-year-old son. By then, Leaf was an internationally famous author and his small book that published ...
Ferdinand spares El Primero and sits down, waiting to be killed, but the crowd yells for El Primero to let Ferdinand live, and he decides to put down his sword and leave with dignity. Through his pacifism, Ferdinand becomes the first bull to survive a bullfight, and is reunited with Nina.