In 1936 the book, The Story of Ferdinand, was published. Two years later, Disney turned it into an Oscar-winning short film. Now, the beloved story has gotten its first major movie adaptation.

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 ...

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 ...

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 wou… ...

Ferdinand (John Cena) is the biggest, strongest bull around but, rather than fight for glory in the arena, he'd much rather spend his days with Nina (Lily Day), tending the flowers.

Ferdinand the Bull, is cute, for sure, and the trailer suggests it will be a charming and entertaining movie, but I have always loved stealth opportunities to sneak in a “teaching moment ...

STATE COLLEGE -- The beloved children's book, "The Story of Ferdinand," comes to the stage in a narrated adaptation with larger-than-life puppets, masked dancers and mechanical figures. Hudson ...

MUNRO LEAF'S classic tale of the gentle and peaceful bull, "Ferdinand the Bull," will be told through a narrated ballet performed by the Hudson Vagabond Puppets at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center ...

GREEN BAY (WLUK) -- Move over Tundra, there's a newcomer on the Neville Public Museum grounds.Ferdinand, a life-sized bull made of recycled steel, joined six other sculptures outside the Green bay ...

Never before had the 400-odd island villagers of North Haven seen such a fine schoolteacher and all-round nice fellow as lovable, affable Martin Godgart. A happy, hulking (6 ft., 250 lb.), ...

Lakewood Suzuki Strings, a local music institution, hosted a live reading of The Story of Ferdinand the Bull and an Instrument Petting Zoo Nov. 23 at the Lorain Public Library System Domonkas ...

In 1936 the book, The Story of Ferdinand, was published. Two years later, Disney turned it into an Oscar-winning short film. Now, the beloved story has gotten its first major movie adaptation.