He presents not only the beauty of the natural world but its harshness as well. Salten wrote with the heart of a poet, and though he gave voices to the animals and even leaves on the trees, he was true to nature, true to animal behavior.
The original book carried the subtitle A Life In The Woods, and it was perhaps the first ecological novel. But it was not until I was grown-up that I discovered the book by Felix Salten. "My older sister took me to see Walt Disney's animated film Bambi in 1942 when it was first shown, and I laughed and cried and was dazzled by it as every child is. Janet Schulman, a children's book author and publisher of 40 years, writes in the preface: If I were a child, this is the Bambi that I would remember and save, and the one that would inspire me to read Felix Salten's original story. An Anne Schwartz Book, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division. October 1999, stated first edition thus, first printing. Originally written by Felix Salten, adapted by Janet Schulman, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. His comprehension makes his deer, his screech-owls, his butterflies, grasshoppers and hares, far more exciting to read about than hundreds of human beings who crowd the pages of our novels.Stated first edition thus of Bambi: A Life In The Woods, Felix Salten's classic story of a young deer that loses its mother to hunters and finds his way to adulthood and maturity. His observation is next door to marvelous, and he invests the fruits of this observation with pure poetry. But He can't keep Bambi from growing into a handsome stag himself, and becoming.the Prince of the Forest.John Chamberlain has the gift of a tender, lucid style. He does terrible things to Gobo, to Bambi's mother, and even to Bambi.
He comes to the forest with weapons that can wound an animal. Bambi's father, a handsome stag, roams the forest, but leaves Bambi and his mother alone. The first snowfall makes food hard to find. But winter comes, and Bambi learns that the woods hold danger — and things he doesn't understand. There are forest animals to play with — Friend Hare, the chattery squirrel, the noisy screech owl, and Bambi's twin cousins, frail Gobo and beautiful Faline. The Prince of the Forest Bambi's life in the woods begins happily.
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