Bambi's Children

Infobox Book
name = Bambi's Children, The Story of a Forest Family
title_orig = Bambis Kinder, eine Familie im Walde
translator = Barthold Fles


image_caption = First edition
author = Felix Salten
illustrator = Erna Pinner
cover_artist =
country = flag|Germany
language = German
genre = Children's novel
publisher = Bobbs-Merrill
pub_date = 1940
english_pub_date = 1939
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 315
isbn =
oclc = 225457
preceded_by = Bambi, A Life in the Woods

"Bambi's Children, The Story of a Forest Family", originally titled "Bambis Kinder, eine Familie im Walde", is a German Children's novel written by Felix Salten as a sequel to his successful work "Bambi, A Life in the Woods". The sequel follows the lives of the deer Bambi's twin fawns as they grow from fawns through adulthood. Salten wrote the sequel while living in exile in Switzerland after being forced to flee Nazi occupied Austria as he was of Jewish heritage. [cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/salten.html |title=Felix Salten (Siegmund Salzmann, 1869-1945) |first=Hyde |last=Flippo |authorlink=Hyde Flippo |publisher= |work=The German-Hollywood Connection |publisher=The German Way and More |accessdate=2008-07-20 ] Originally written in German, the novel was first published in English in the United States in 1939 by Bobbs-Merrill. It was not published in Germany until the following year. [cite book |title=A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler |first=Dagmar C. G. |last=Lorenz |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |year=2003 |isbn=1571132139 |pages=p. 125 ]

Plot introduction

Twin fawns, Geno and Gurri learn the pleasures as well as downsides of nature and their forest home, as their mother Faline raises them them to adult hood. Their father, Bambi, watches over them and, at times, takes care of them while their mother is busy. During their lives, they interact with Lana and Boso, twin fawns of their Aunt Rolla, and the orphaned siblings Nello and Membo. The deer also interact with a variety of humans including hunters seeking to kill them and forest rangers wishing to protect them.

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