Bambi, A Life in the Woods

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Bambi, A Life in the Woods
Author	Felix Salten
Original title	Bambi, ein Leben im Walde
Translator	Whittaker Chambers
Country	Germany
Language	German
Publisher	New York, Simon and Schuster
Publication date	1923
ISBN	ISBN 0-671-66607-X
Followed by	Bambi's Children

Bambi, A Life in the Woods (origanally Bambi, ein Leben im Walde) is a book by Felix Salten, first printed in 1923. Bambi is the name of the main character, a male roe deer beginning life as a fawn, then an adolescent spike, and finally a buck. Felix Salten was the pen-name of Siegmund Salzmann, who was born in Budapest, Hungary but grew up in Vienna, Austria. The book was translated from German into English by Whittaker Chambers, who needed to supplement his income while working at a Communist newspaper. Felix Salten wrote a sequel, entitled Bambi's Children. Additionally, Salten wrote a novel titled "Perri", whose title character is a squirrel.Bambi makes a brief appearance in that novel.

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The story was made into an animated film by Walt Disney Productions first released in the United Kingdom on August 8, 1942. The company took the liberty of changing the species into a white-tailed deer, and of putting him into an American forest. Additionally, the tone of the story was significantly lightened.The original book was much darker and more brutal.A midquel,titled Bambi II,was made in 2006.It was released on DVD February 7, 2006.Also, it was the last Disney movie to be released on VHS.

Besides the popular Disney film, two movies based on this book, Detstvo Bambi (Bambi's Childhood) and its sequel Yunost Bambi (Bambi's Youth), were released in the USSR in 1985 and 1986 respectively with participation of living animals as well as human actors. Over 60 species of animals are featured in the movies.