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First Edition Identification<\/h3>\n

Ferdinand <\/em>; written by Munro Leaf, illustrated by Robert Lawson; Viking Press; 1936<\/p>\n

Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value:\u00a0 $5,000 VG+<\/p>\n

Essential identifying point <\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright page:\u00a0 Line with “FIRST PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1936”. with no additional printings listed.<\/p>\n

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Non-essential<\/span><\/p>\n

DJ flap price “$1.00”<\/p>\n

Background Information<\/h3>\n

Ferdinand<\/em> was a national phenomenon in the late 1930\u2019s after it\u2019s publication. The anti-fight message struck a chord with a world infected with war. By 1938, in it\u2019s first two years of publication, <\/span>Ferdinand<\/em> was reprinted over ten times. In 1938, Disney released an animated film \u201cFerdinand The Bull<\/em> \u201d. Life Magazine, the leading periodical of it\u2019s time, published articles on the book and it\u2019s creators in two separate issues. The Feb. 21, 1938 issue featured a story titled \u201cFerdinand, The Bull Who Loves Flowers, Is Now A Grownups Hero\u201d (Bibliophiles will love the Carl Sandburg cover; the article, however is about Sandburg singing folk songs?). The Nov. 28, 1938 issue highlighted the Disney film, along with photographs showing the multitude of toys and other cross-promotional material being merchandised. The magnitude of merchandising material would be common place today, however was ground breaking at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ferdinand<\/em> was the highlight of author Munro Leaf\u2019s career. He was writer and illustrator for a series of \u201cCan Be Fun\u201d books (i.e. <\/span>Manners Can Be Fun<\/em> , Safety, Grammar, etc\u2026), and did author a Caldecott Honor winning book, however nothing came close to the notoriety he garnered for Ferdinand. Illustrator Robert Lawson did have significant commercial success after <\/span>Ferdinand<\/em> , both as an illustrator and as an author. In 1937, he won a Caldecott Honor award for his illustrations for Four And Twenty Blackbirds<\/em>, then won another Caldecott Honor in 1938 for Wee Gillis<\/em> , which was authored by Munro Leaf. Lawson was the illustrator for <\/span>Mr. Popper\u2019s Penguins<\/em> , which won a Newbery Honor award in 1938.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1940, Lawson won the Caldecott Medal for <\/span>They Were Good And Strong<\/em> , a book he both wrote and illustrated. Lawson was the illustrator for the 1942 Newbery Medal book, <\/span>Adam Of The Road<\/em> . Finally, Lawson won the Newbery Medal in 1944 for <\/span>Rabbit Hill<\/em> , a book he both wrote and illustrated. (Lawson also did the decorations and endpapers for Putnam\u2019s 1939 publication of T.H. White\u2019s <\/span>Sword In The Stone<\/em> , which was later turned into a Disney feature film.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ferdinand<\/em> has been in print since it\u2019s publication in 1936, and has been translated into a number of foreign languages. How many fiction books published since 1936 have been translated into Latin? The anti-fight sentiment still rings true today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Non-essential DJ flap price “$1.00” Background Information Ferdinand was a national phenomenon in the late 1930\u2019s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-edition-identification-points"],"yoast_head":"\nFerdinand (1936) - Collecting First Edition Children's Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/1stedition.net\/blog\/2006\/ferdinand-1936\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ferdinand (1936) - Collecting First Edition Children's Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First Edition Identification Ferdinand ; written by Munro Leaf, illustrated by Robert Lawson; Viking Press; 1936 Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value:\u00a0 $5,000 VG+ Essential identifying point Copyright page:\u00a0 Line with “FIRST PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1936”. with no additional printings listed. 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