Over in Spain most self-respecting young bulls want more than anything else to be picked to fight at the bull fights in the great arenas. But not Ferdinand.

He preferred to sit quietly out under the tree, until his mother, "who was a cow," was really worried about him. Then one day five men came down from Madrid. That was the day that Ferdinand...

Well, this is the story of what happened to Ferdinand when he found himself in the middle of a vast arena!

From the dust jacket