"Bambi" by Felix Salten

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Publisher: International Collectors Library
Binding: Victorian Replica Binding
Pages: 191
Illustrator: Girard Goodenow

Original Publish Date: 1923
Country: Austria
Genre: Children's Fiction
Full Title: Bambi, a Life in the Woods

Synopsis: "The novel traces the life of Bambi, a male roe deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father and experience about the dangers posed by human hunters in the forest." -Wikipedia

Fun Fact: Bambi was banned in Nazi Germany in 1936 as "political allegory on the treatment of Jews in Europe." -Wikipedia

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