Otter's Rock

Not really? It was written in like the 1930s. All the other young bulls practice being fierce and stuff so they can get picked to be the bull that gets fought, Ferdinand just wants to sit in a meadow and smell the flowers.

On the day the guys come to pick the bull to fight, the other bulls try to show off and Ferdinand goes back to sit down and smell the flowers, but he sits on a bee which stings him, and from his reaction to that he gets chosen.

On the day of the bullfight, however, he just gets to the ring, sits in the middle, and smells all the flowers in the ladies' hair. The matador and picadors and all get really angry, so angry they cry, but they can't get Ferdinand to fight, and so he gets sent back to his meadow to smell the flowers and is happy.

The closest they get to mentioning the death part of bullfighting is describing how spiffy the matador and picadors and stuff look with their weapons and fancy embroidered clothes.

They are, apparently, making a movie of it.