The Story of Ferdinand

Awesome picture.  I must say, Ferdinand's one of my favorite literary characters as well.  When I first read the book, I found him kind of boring because his idea of a good time was sitting under a tree and smelling flowers.  However, I've had a change of heart about him: I wish more people had read this book and followed his example, because then there'd surely be less violence throughout the world.  It's a good thing he didn't fight, because it would have ended with the matador running the poor bovine through with his sword.  Who knows?  Maybe after he was taken back to the tree where he liked to sit and smell the flowers, he told the other bulls, who weren't chosen for the fight, that they were lucky, because any of them could have been killed by the matador's sword.  After hearing this, they might have joined him in smelling flowers in the shade of the tree.  The reason Munro Leaf didn't add this was probably because he wanted the readers to use their imaginations and picture it for themselves.  This book serves as a powerful reminder that we shouldn't scoff at those who are different from us.  Ferdinand will always be a literary hero to me; I wish there were more protagonists in popular culture like himself--those who like to sit under trees and smell the flowers without picking them.