I just read "The Story of Ferdinand" to my 6 mo old!

[absyntheNsugar]

By Munro Leaf.

That book is the best childrens book EVER! Excellent illustrations, cute story, and an excellent anti-war message with a nod to the non-conformists!

Anyone else here remember it?

[CanuckAmok]

1. No...how does it go?

I've never heard of it. Is this (yet another) reason to be pissed at my parents?

[burrowowl]

3. He is a bull that

prefers to sniff flowers instead of being bullish. I loved it too as a tot and enjoyed reading it to my younger siblings.

[absyntheNsugar]

4. Cute story about a bull

that grows up sitting under a cork tree (and the cork tree has all these little wine corks hanging from the branches). Unlike the other bulls, he doesn't like to fight, and instead loves to just smell the flowers.

Anyway, these bullfighters are out looking for a big, brave, fearsome bull and see Ferdinand after getting stung by a bee. They think he's this really fierce bull and take him off to town to enter the bullfights.

Of course he won't fight, and instead just smells the flowers that this woman in the audience has in her hair. The Matadors get frustrated and send Ferdinand back to the cork tree where he lives out the rest of his days, smelling flowers.

Real cute story.

[bhunt70]

2. One of my favorite books of all time!

I love that book.

[mitchum]

5. Great book

[SheilaT]

6. Yep.

Great book.

I remember it from my childhood, and read it to my boys who are now 16 and 21.