Toro, Toro! by Michael Morpurgo


ISBN
9780007105519
Published
Released
01 / 02 / 2002
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
128
Dimensions
141 x 222 x 16mm

Illustrated by Michael Foreman.

The drama and tragedy of the Spanish Civil War . . .

This is the story of a young boy growing up in Andalucia, Spain, on a farm raring bulls for the bull ring. Antonito hand-rears a little black calf and they become firm friends, but the boy doesn't yet understand the fate of the black bulls - the corrida and death.

Later, when he learns of the horrors of the bull fight, he frees Paco, the black bull, and rides with him into the hills. There they witness the bombing of their village (it's the year 1936, and the Spanish Civil War has started) and Antonito cannot go back - his family and the farm are destroyed, and Paco has run off, wild with fright.

Antonito decides to stay in the hills, where he meets up with the Resistance fighters. During the war, Antonito hears stories round the campfire of the wonderful back bull, who becomes a symbol of freedom for them all. Cold this really be Paco? But no one has ever seen him.

After the war, when Antonito is working as a muleteer in the mountains, he falls asleep and dreams of Paco. In the morning, he wakes to see hoofprints on the ground beside him . . .

A delightful story, full of nostalgia and drama in the author's own inimitable style.
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