Ferdinand likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls.
Text in Spanish. Ferdinando, a bull from Spain, didn't like to fight, he just wanted to sit under his favorite tree and smell the flowers. Then he is chosen for a bullfight.
"Ferdinand is a little bull who grows to be very big and strong. But rather than fight, he prefers relaxing in the beautiful Spanish countryside."--Container.
In Spain, a young bull named Ferdinand who would rather sit peacefully under a tree and smell the flowers than butt heads with the others is chosen for the bullfights in Madrid when a sting from a bee makes him stomp and snort like the fiercest bull of all.