The Buxtehude Bull (German: Buxtehuder Bulle) is an award for youth literature, established in 1971 by Winfried Ziemann, a local book merchant from Buxtehude, a Hanseatic City located in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. [1] [2] The town council took over the sponsorship of the award in 1981. [3] The award is given annually to the best children's or young-adults' book published in German (either native language or translated) in the preceding year. [3] The writer is presented with a small steel statue of the bull (German: Bulle) Ferdinand, from the popular work The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, [4] and also receives a monetary prize of €5,000. [5]