Fernando lives with his mother and other bulls in a dehesa in a small Spanish village. Unlike the other bulls who want to be the protagonists at the famous bullfights in Seville, Fernando likes to sit under his favorite cork tree smelling the sweet scent of the wild flowers. The original story by Munro Leaf was controversial in Francoist Spain: the Franco regime was suspicious of a pacifist bull who was happy smelling the flowers instead of training for the bullfights. The book was banned in Spain until the dictator’s death in 1975.https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/globalstorytelling/1009/thumbnail.jp
