Connected to everything from pacifism to changing gender norms, the cartoon bull is a useful guide to censorship and moral panics over what kids are reading.

The Political Afterlives of Ferdinand the Bull

One of the most iconic pacifists in American literature celebrates his 90th birthday this year. The bovine hero of the children’s picture book The Story of Ferdinand rose to fame in 1936, when he refused to partake in a bullfight.

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