num_pages: 128
description: Best-selling author Michael Morpurgo turns his storytelling skills to the drama and tragedy of the Spanish Civil War illustrated by Michael Foreman.TOROTORO is the story of a young boy growing up in Andalucia Spain on a farm rearing 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. He 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 black bull who becomes a symbol of freedom for them all. Could 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 hoof prints on the ground beside himA delightful story full of nostalgia and drama in the author's own inimitable style. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
language: English
title: Toro! Toro!
publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks