Wilbur Monroe Leaf, better known as Munro Leaf (December 4, 1905–December 21, 1976), wrote the story in the first year of his thirties, on a yellow legal pad, in half an hour, as a creative prompt for his friend Robert Lawson (October 4, 1892–May 27, 1957) - he wanted to give the illustrator something to tickle his artistic imagination out of a lull. The day he is taken to the bull ring, he models for the violence-hungry crowd - as he would for millions of readers in the century since - a saner way of being in an insane world. His mother, at first worried about his bullness, recognizes her son’s difference and trusts that he would find his way.įerdinand grows up to remain entirely himself. In The Story of Ferdinand ( public library), a gentle-souled young misfit sits out the perpetual head-butting by which his peers hone their bull-skills, choosing instead to smell the flowers under his favorite cork tree in solitude.
Six weeks before my grandmother was born on the other side of the world, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle announced the publication of a book described only as “a children’s story of a bull,” sold for $1.
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