Bambi: A Life in the Woods

Bambi: A Life in the Woods

Bambi: A Life in the Woods

Bambi: A Life in the Woods

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Overview

The novel that inspired the famous Disney movie is a much deeper work of art—a fable of loss and survival set against a beautifully evoked natural world.

This gripping tale of forest life has come to be thought of as a children’s story, thanks to the Disney adapation, but while young readers can enjoy it, it is also a moving contribution to the literature of the natural world. The fawn Bambi, first with his mother and then without her, learns that life in the forest is both precious and precarious. After losing his mother, he grows to become a young stag, falls in love with a doe, and is taught important lessons about the perilous ways of humans by the Old Prince, the oldest and largest stag in the forest. The last lesson Old Prince reveals to Bambi is that humans are not as all-powerful and wise as they seem, for they are also a mortal danger to each other.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101908532
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/05/2024
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 227,421
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 8.12(h) x (d)
Age Range: 10 - 11 Years

About the Author

FELIX SALTEN (1869–1945) was an Austrian novelist, journalist, critic, essayist, and playwright. After Hitler banned his books in 1936, Salten, who was Jewish, moved to Switzerland, where he died in 1945. Bambi, written in 1923 and translated into English in 1928, is his most famous work.

KURT WIESE (1887–1974) was a German-born book illustrator, who wrote and illustrated twenty children's books and illustrated another three hundred for other authors. He moved to the United States in 1927, and his first success was with the illustrations for the English translation of Salten's Bambi.

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That evening when Bambi and his mother were playing tag in the meadow, his mother saw her friend the hare and introduced him to Bambi.

"Good evening, young man," said Hare politely.

Bambi thought the hare's long spoonlike ears, which at times stood bolt upright and at others fell back limply as though they had suddenly grown weak, were funny. Bambi had to laugh.

The hare laughed quickly too, but then his eyes grew more thoughtful. To Bambi's surprise he suddenly sat straight up on his hind legs and said to Bambi's mother, "What a charming young prince. I sincerely congratulate you. Yes, indeed, he'll make a splendid prince in time." And with that, the hare excused himself -- "I have all kinds of things to do tonight" -- and hopped off, ears back, so they touched his shoulders.

Copyright 1928 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Copyright renewed 1956 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Storybook adaptation copyright © 1999 by Janet Schulman

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