Bambi's Children, The Story of a Forest Family , is a
children's novel written by Austrian author
Felix Salten as a sequel to his successful work
Bambi, A Life in the Woods. The sequel follows the lives of the twin children of Bambi and his cousin Faline as they grow from fawns through adulthood. Salten wrote the sequel while living in exile in
Switzerland after being forced to flee
Nazi-occupied Austria as he was of
Jewish heritage. Originally written in German, the novel was first published in English in the United States in 1939 by
Bobbs-Merrill. It was not published in German until the following year. Its language is gentler than that of
Bambi, A Life in the Woods.
Perri, a squirrel character from one of Salten's earlier novels, makes brief appearances in the book.