Bambi's Children

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Bambi's Children, The Story of a Forest Family is a book written by Felix Salten, first printed and translated from German to English in 1939. The main characters are 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 more dark compared to the lightheartedness of this sequel. Unlike it's predecessor, Bambi's Children ends when Geno begins to grow his antlers, whereas Bambi, A Life in the Woods continued until Bambi's children were born. In the end, Faline, knowing the time was right, sends off her children to live their own lives.