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"On a damp and rainy Sunday in October of 1935, Munro Leaf sat down to
write a story. He had been eager to work with his friend – the
illustrator Robert Lawson – for some time and so he decided to pen a
book which he felt might suit the illustrator’s skills. Lawson was a
master at drawing animals but horses, dogs, cats, rabbits and mice had
all been done a thousand times already. Leaf wanted something new and
decided that his story should be about a bull. What he created was
called The Story of Ferdinand. It was a simple but amusing tale of a
peaceful Spanish bull who had no interest in bullfighting."
Via
mudhooks@pluspora.com.
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