What is Bambi's Children?
{{Italic title}} {{Infobox book |name = Bambi's Children |title_orig = Bambis Kinder: Eine Familie im Walde |translator = [[Barthold Fles]] |image = |caption = |author = [[Felix Salten]] |illustrator = Hans Bertle <small>(Swiss edition)</small><br/>Erna Pinner <small>(U.S. edition)</small> |cover_artist = |country = [[Switzerland]] |language = [[German language|German]] |genre = [[Novel]] |publisher = [[Bobbs-Merrill]] (US)<br/>Albert Müller (Switzerland) |pub_date = 1940 |english_pub_date = 1939 |media_type = Print ([[Hardback]]) |pages = 315 |isbn = |congress=PZ10.3.S176 Bap10 |oclc = 225457 |preceded_by = [[Bambi, a Life in the Woods]] |followed_by = }} '''''Bambi's Children, The Story of a Forest Family''''' ({{lang-de|Bambis Kinder. Eine Familie im Walde}}) is a book written by [[Felix Salten]], first printed and translated from German to English in 1939. It is a sequel to Salten's book ''[[Bambi, A Life in the Woods]]''. It was first published in German only in the following year.<ref>{{cite book| last = Lorenz| first = Dagmar| title = A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UH0XSRGQwQAC&pg=PA125| access-date = 2011-07-22| year = 2003| publisher = [[Boydell & Brewer]]| isbn = 978-1-57113-213-0| page = 125| quote = The English translation of Bambis Kinder was published in 1939, a year before the German publication (Dormer, 438 and 439). }}</ref> The main characters are [[Bambi (character)|Bambi]]'s twin fawns, Geno, male, and Gurri, female; it also stars their friends, another pair of fawns named Lana and Boso. Lana and Boso are the children of Aunt Rolla, a doe met later in the course of the novel. Two more new characters are introduced—Nello and Membo, the orphans. The overall storyline is how Geno and Gurri learn the pleasures as well as downsides of nature and their forest home. ''Bambi, A Life in the Woods'', the original story of Bambi, is much darker than the sequel. Unlike its predecessor, ''Bambi's Children'' ends when Geno begins to grow his ant