A shortened French-language edition was illustrated by Jeanne Hives after Walt Disney in 1959 and by Jacques Fromont in 1977. The 1945 Brazilian Portuguese translation, Os filhos de Bambi, and the 1946 French translation, Les Enfants de Bambi by Monique Yersin, use the illustrations by Hans Bertle. However, the English-language edition consists of 30 chapters, and the abridged Swedish edition only has 14 chapters.īarthold Fles’ English translation has also been released with illustrations by Phoebe Erickson (1976) and Richard Cowdrey (2014). Salten's original German text of Bambis Kinder does not have chapter divisions the text is only divided into 22 unnumbered sections by blank lines. “At this time I beg you most urgently, quite apart from softenings, not to advertise my work as a children’s book or to launch it otherwise in such a way.” įelix Salten himself did not want to be identified as merely a children's author, and he opposed the changes his American publisher wanted to make in Bambi’s Children, for instance to the section which depicts the mating season of the moose. On the other hand, the 1977 Swedish translation, Bambis barn, is essentially abridged, without a mention of this in the book. Īlthough the title page of the American edition claims that the English translation is “complete and unabridged,” in reality it is somewhat abridged and greatly altered in tone and content for instance, italicized wordplay has been added to the English edition.
In German language, the content of Bambi’s Children is more violent, even gorier than that of Bambi, A Life in the Woods, but violent depictions of killings and mutilated animals have been toned down or removed from the English translation so that its language appears gentler than that of Bambi. Salten also included himself as the responsible and humane hunter in the novel. The models for Geno and Gurri were Felix Salten's own children, Paul who was careful and timid, and Anna Katharina, who was merry and optimistic. Perri, a squirrel character from one of Salten's earlier novels, makes several appearances in the book.
It was not published in German until the following year. Written in German, the novel was first published in English in the United States in 1939 by Bobbs-Merrill.
Salten wrote the sequel while living in exile in Switzerland after being forced to flee Nazi-occupied Austria as he was of Jewish heritage. The sequel to Bambi follows the lives of the twin children of Bambi and his mate and cousin Faline as they grow from fawns to young adults. Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family ( German: Bambis Kinder: Eine Familie im Walde) is a 1939 coming-of-age novel written by Austrian author Felix Salten as a sequel to his 1923 work Bambi, a Life in the Woods.
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