5/13/2023 0 Comments The book ferdinand![]() ![]() The ban was not lifted until his death in 1975. ![]() A surprisingly political bookĪs it was published at the time of the Spanish civil war, General Franco – the man who led the violent uprising – was definitely not amused at the pacifist bull and banned the book. According to one of the reviews on IMDB, the animated bandilleros and picadors were based on the cartoon’s animators and the matador on Walt Disney himself he was reportedly Not Amused by that, though surely he must have vetted it, especially if he voiced part of it that story sounds apocryphal to me. What’s even more surprising than the fact I remember it is that Walt Disney himself voiced Ferdinand’s mother. ![]() What a delightful and illogical tradition! An image from the book, by Robert Lawson When they tried to replace it with something else in the 1980s in Sweden, it came back the following year after a public outcry. In fact, in some countries it is shown every year on Christmas Eve. ![]() It sounded very familiar: was it made into one of those short Disney cartoons? Indeed it was made in 1938, it won an Oscar and was still being shown on television into the 1970s. This is a children’s book with a story about a little Spanish bull who preferred to sit under a tree and smell flowers rather than fight. ![]()
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