The Story of Ferdinand
September 11, 2018
How disturbing this book is depends on the reader's knowledge of bullfights.
What what the heck? How did this book and the story that it tells become so popular? I vaguely remember the 1938 Disney animated short. It was only published two years prior to that, in 1936, and it shows. The writing is very simplistic, and it feels so rhythmically slow compared to modern books, with the exception of the ones written for very little children.
Message
Some people like to smell flowers, and that's okay. You don't have to be violent.
