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Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family
Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family
Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family
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Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family

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Meet the new fawns in the forest: the descendants of Bambi discover the woods in this refreshed edition of the sequel to Bambi, complete with new illustrations.

Twin fawns Geno and Gurri are the children of Faline and Bambi. The pair must grow up and navigate the world of the woods with the help of their mother and Bambi, the new Prince of the Forest.

But for young fawns, the wild can be dangerous. Gurri is injured by a fox and has a run-in with the most dangerous of creatures: man. Geno is challenged by rival deer and worries about the impending fight. But when the family begins to fall apart, it is the familiar presence of Bambi who tries to set it right again.

This beautiful repackage of the sequel to the beloved classic Bambi, tells the story of a forest family and the struggles of growing up. Complete with brand new illustrations from artist Richard Cowdrey.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAladdin
Release dateFeb 18, 2014
ISBN9781442487475
Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family
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Felix Salten

Felix Salten (1869–1945) was an Austrian author and critic in Vienna. His most famous work is Bambi.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Outstanding artwork, story retold for young children.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I remember the smell of my dad's old copy of this. It is one of my earliest memories, and a book I loved unreservedly. I didn't even know there was a book that came before till much later. I think I need to re-read this one.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This story tells how Bambi's children grew up while he reigned as the strongest and wisest stag in the forest. It isn't nearly as good. The storyline has some close similarities, but in this case it ends when the young deer are just ready to leave their parents and become independent. The most interesting parts feel more or less repeated from the prior book- one of the young deer gets rescued by a gamekeeper; but in this case it tells first-hand of her experience while she's trapped and she doesn't experience the same awkwardness as Gobo did upon returning. Hunters are not as prevalent a danger as before, and this time the story is often told from the humans' viewpoint; we hear them talking and see their motives where before it was all presented from the animals' point of view with human activity more or less a mystery. Some humans are shown to be sympathetic to the animals, others wanton killers. The fox is a threat again, and a dog that runs loose from the village and starts savaging deer for amusement. The owl becomes a creature who spouts proverbs, which frequently confuse the other animals when they refer to things from human culture. The hare is more of a nervous wreck, the birds more quarrelsome. Even the deer seem to engage in petty quarrels- the very opening scene of the book has Bambi's children arguing like petulant human siblings, with their mother Faline being chided by a bird for spoiling them. The trees talk sometimes, but what they say doesn't really add to anything. The descriptions of nature and seasons aren't as well-written. I did enjoy the story a little, enough to finish the book, but for the most part it seemed to be focused on misunderstandings between the deer families that resulted in them refusing to associate with each other, even when the children had forgotten the grievance and wanted to make amends the parents couldn't bring themselves to. The story ended when all was finally forgiven and that was a really unsatisfying climax. Disappointment.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Not as good as Bambi. The usual problem with talking animals - to be interesting they get unrealistic. In Bambi, for all they talked they behaved pretty much like deer. In Bambi's Children, we have politics (the children of the leader are more important), various arguments (the two or three riits between Rolla's family and Faline's), philosophy and mysticism (the owl's quotes, Geno hearing the trees talking), etc. It's a mildly interesting story, but it's stopped being the story of deer and has become a story of humans in deer shape. Even their various interactions with Him reflect that. Not bad, not good.

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