“He was gentle and kind/ And his moo was refined/Which the rest of the bullsĪll resented,” goes the song “Ferdinand the Bull,” sung by “America’s sweethearts,” The Lennon Sisters, and laterĬovered by Michael Feinstein, the acclaimed songwriter and singer, on his children’s album, “Pure Imagination. It’s not a stretch to think of Ferdinand as more than just a symbol of peace, but as an icon for the outsider and the bullied. The director of the “Ice Age” franchise, is attached to direct. And just last month, Fox Animation Studios acquired the rights to the book, with plans to adapt it into a full-length CGI film. In 1938, Walt Disney created a short animated cartoon of the story, which went on to win –ĭeservedly – an Oscar for Best Animated Short Subject (Cartoons). Ferdinand liked to sit and smell the flowers. Number Maze Work on number recognition and counting as you help Ferdinand find his way back to the flowers 3. Words include: bull, sit, bee, tree, and flower. Words to Find Find the words from the story. “Ferdinand” actually has a long cinematic history. This The Story of Ferdinand printable pack includes these activities: 1. Singer-songwriter Elliott Smith had a tattoo of Ferdinand. The book was adapted, in 1971, as Ferdinand, a piece for solo violin and narrator by the British composer Alan Ridout.

Last year, the actor Seth Rogan gave a live reading, set to music, in Los Angeles. Music The story was set to incidental music in Ferdinand the Bull by classical composer Mark Fish. When Sandra Bullock read the book aloud to her sons in “The Blind Side,” sales in the U.S., always steady, Hit anyway, translated into more than 60 languages and selling millions of copies worldwide. First published in 1936, “Ferdinand” was released shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and was widely viewed as pacifist propaganda, leading to bans in many countries.

Ferdinand the bull story book