The beloved children’s book “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, was published in 1936. But the simple, pacifist story about a bull who would rather ...

And that bull has been on quite a journey to get here. 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 ...

Honoring Leaf's gentle "The Story of Ferdinand," about a Spanish bull who would rather smell the flowers than fight in the ring, the film incorporates the book's story arc, with stylistic nods to ...

You might think that “The Story of Ferdinand,” about a gentle bull who refuses to fight in either pasture or bullring, only wanting to sit under his favorite tree and smell the flowers ...

You won’t be surprised to learn that “Ferdinand,” the new animated feature based on the beloved 1936 children’s book, manages to find a way to put the titular bull into a literal china shop.

John Cena and Kate McKinnon lend their voices to the CG rendering of the classic pacifist bull story 'Ferdinand.' By Michael Rechtshaffen It’s no Coco, but Ferdinand, a CG-animated adaptation of ...

Ferdinand is quite clearly a Quaker bull. “Can I be the champion of not fighting?” Ferdinand asks his father. Rather than snorting and charging, Ferdinand prefers to lie down and smell the ...

If you did not love Ferdinand the bull when you were young, it can only be because you didn’t encounter the classic children’s story. Because it is impossible to dislike Ferdinand. Ferdinand ...

Connecticut soprano Anne Rhodes narrates the childhood tale of Ferdinand the Bull before singing American ... lilting waltz melody from Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty.” ...