Bambi
Subtitle: A Life in the Woods
By: Felix Salten ; illustrated by Barbara Cooney
Contributors: Cooney, Barbara, 1917-2000
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1956
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Legends and stories; Deer; Fiction
Description: Since it first appeared over forty years ago, Bambi has been a classic, a wise and humane idyll of life and death in the woods, beloved by readers of all ages.

This unforgettable tale of a young fawn opens when Bambi takes his first trembling steps in the hidden forest glade. But soon, filled with boundless curiosity and the thrill of discovery, he is playing in the sunlit meadow and meeting his animal neighbors.

For a few months, life is sweet for the young deer, but when winter comes he learns the meaning of terror as he confronts starvation, and the awesome, two-footed creature called Man, and Man s fearful “thunderstick." With the coming of spring, vitality returns, and Bambi matures into a handsome stag . . . and learns of the loneliness and responsibility that come with being the leader of a herd.

Exquisite drawings by Barbara Cooney, former winner of the Caldecott Medal, enhance this handsome new edi¬ tion of Bambi, a book that John Galsworthy, in his Foreword, appropriately calls “a little masterpiece.”