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Bambi's Children continues the enchanting story of the most famous of all Felix Salten's animal creations, Bambi the forest deer. This is the tale of the first year in the life of Bambi and Faline's two children, Geno and Gurri, of their first trembling experiences of the mysteries of the forest, their first encounters with danger, heroism and death.
Once more Salten's extraordinary feeling for the magic of the woods, the joyousness and fragility of the creatures that live there, makes his writing a pleasure for young and old. Above all he understands the interdependence of this 'natural' society of birds and animals and plants, in which it is the killer man who is the stranger; and thus adds a dimension to our perception of ourselves.
John Galsworthy wrote of Bambi when it was published, "Bambi is a delicious book. Delicious not only for children but for those who are no longer so fortunate. For delicacy of perception and essential truth I hardly know any story of animals that can stand beside this life study of a forest deer."
—from the dust jacket of the Souvenir Press edition
There have been a couple of lovely adaptations made of Bambi's Children, illustrated by artists William Bartlett, and Phoebe Erickson (Allan Chaffee text).
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