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This story was edited for radio by Andrew Limbong and Rose Friedman, and adapted for the Web by Sydnee Monday and Petra Mayer. Researcher Jane Gilvin contributed to this report.

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Ferdinand, the movie version, comes out later this week, but the book will likely be around forever. In the end, Ferdinand stays true to himself, sitting under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers quietly. He just let people interpret it as they wished.'

His son, Andy Leaf, says his father was amused by all of the different interpretations. He wrote other books, but none that had the global success of Ferdinand. 'There isn't a human walking the earth that say 'Everybody gets me all the time.' That's why I think, another reason the book is timeless. And he's super gentle.'Ĭena confirmed that he's misjudged for his size. 'Like he's so big and massive and people interpret him as this massive guy that picks fights and all this stuff but actually he's not at all. 'He almost represents, visually, Ferdinand,' Saldanha tells NPR. 'Couple of them I know that I read about that time that stand out as vividly today, and that's Treasure Island was one, and The Wizard Of Oz to me was one of the nicest books I ever found.'Įssays Who's Afraid Of Sendak's Stories? Adults, Mostly 'Oh gee, I read everything I could get my hands on really,' he said. Children on the show asked him what books he read when he was ten and a half. In 1948, Leaf talked to the Chicago radio show, The Hobby Horse Presents. There was the Disney short, Ferdinand merchandise, a balloon at the annual Macy's Thanksgiving parade, songs and author interviews. Leaf gave the story to his friend, illustrator Robert Lawson, who brought it to life with detailed, whimsical, pen and ink drawings. And there it was in pencil on six sheets of yellow legal pad.' Do something.' About 35 to 40 minutes later, he said 'Listen to this,' and he read me Ferdinand. So I finally said to him, 'Get lost, go and amuse yourself. 'I was going to get $25 for reading it, so it was very important, and he kept bothering me, trying to interrupt me. Do something.' About 35 to 40 minutes later, he said 'Listen to this,' and he read me 'Ferdinand.' I finally said to him, 'Get lost, go and amuse yourself. But when he sits on a bumblebee, he goes berserk, puffing and kicking. He just wants to sit under the cork tree and smell flowers.

Precious Ferdinand, even when he grows to be bigger than all the other bulls, still doesn't want to fight. 'It's very delicate and very important, and the people from the Library of Congress were very thorough in saying like, 'Hey, don't touch the first book.'' 'We're going to look at the 1936 edition but not touch it,' Cena told the students. On a table next to him were two early editions of the book from the library's collection. John Cena, the actor who voices Ferdinand in the new movie, recently read the original story to hundreds of DC public school kids at the Library of Congress. And that bull has been on quite a journey to get here.

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Now, the peaceful bull who prefers sniffing flowers to bullfighting is getting an update from 20th Century Fox. Two years later, Disney turned it into it an Oscar-winning short film. Millions of people have read Munro Leaf's The Story of Ferdinand since it was first published in 1936. Ferdinand, voiced by John Cena, and Nina (Julia Saldanha and Lily Day).īlue Sky Studios/20th Century Fox Film Corporation