About this title: To tie in with the re-release of the beloved film classic, Felix Salten's wise and beautiful novel, which was the inspiration for the film, is being reissued to meet with Disney's large-budget advertising, promotion and publicity campaign.
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Description: Good. Purchasing this item supports Pierce County libraries. Thriftbooks and PCL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hodder Headline Australia
ISBN-13:9780340024669ISBN:0340024666
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Not Available, Not Available
Date Published: 0000
Description: Good in Good jacket. See Notes. Gently used paperback. ** PLEASE READ: This book is: SALTEN, FELIX: BAMBI A LIFE IN THE WOODS This is the book you will receive if you order this item. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
ISBN-13:9780671739379ISBN:0671739379
Description: Good. 0671739379 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780671651367ISBN:0671651366
Description: Cooney, Barbara. Good in Good jacket. Good in Good jacket Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. DJ corner clipped. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Date Published: 1928
Description: Wiese, Kurt. Good. No dust jacket. wear on cover edges; no dust jacket; original owner's handwritten name inside cover. Includes illustrations. read more
Edition: 4th
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, N. Y.
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780671651350ISBN:0671651358
Description: Cooney, Barbara. Good in Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with normal flaws.....The hard cover and the jacket has shelf wear. light yellowing pages............We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by. read more
Edition: 1st Printing 1973
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Young Readers Press, New York
Date Published: 1970
Description: Cooney. Very Good. No Jacket. ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK COVER IS FADED WITH RUBBING, AND SOME STAINING, CORNERS BUMPED, SPINE ENDS LIGHTLY BUMPED, SHELFWEAR TO EDGES. INTERIOR PAGES HAVE LIGHT SOILING, SOME STAINING AND LIGHT INKING. read more
Description: Poor. No dust jacket as issued. NO SPINE! ! ! Nice relatively very white lovely paper which should radically shame today's publishers. Book plate and a couple of chapter illustrations are actually colored w/crayons. Charming seventy year old relic o. read more
Edition: First American Ed.
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, NY
Date Published: 1928
Description: Fair to Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Average wear, spine dulled, fairly clean light green cloth. Innards have frt. hinge partially torn, tearing away at top, shaken. Text is clean & tight. read more
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books, NY
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780671674694ISBN:0671674692
Description: Illustrated by Cooney, Barbara. Near Fine. 0671674692. 191 pages; Near Fine condition. Complete name: Bambi, A Life in the Woods. Tiny bit of shelf rub at edges. Un-read tight. No creases. An excellent gift! Illustrated. Taking Bambi from his first trembling steps through a winter of fear and danger to the coming of spring and adulthood. read more
"After being told by my mother that this book was "nothing like the Disney version," I came prepared to read something like Watership Down for Children. Surprise! Not really.
This book actually was very like the Disney movie, as I remember it (and it's been quite a few years). It begins with Bambi's birth in a meadow and continues by cataloging his discoveries and experiences one by one: meeting a squirrel, conversing with a screech owl, meeting Aunt Ena and cousin Faline. There's no Bashful or Thumper here and no charming icy pond sequence...and no forest fire. However, there really is an "Old Prince," and Bambi's mother really does die. The less dramatic, cinematic bits of the Disney movie might have been lifted straight from Salten's pages.
However, Salten's major theme didn't quite make it in. All of Bambi's experiences throughout the book are building to one major revelation about the nature of life, of nature, of wild animals vs. domestic animals, and the events that contribute to this revelation didn't quite make the final Disney cut. I'm not sure if I agree with Salten's view of domestic vs. wild and the role of man in nature, but I did find his conclusions thought-provoking. I'd say this book is worth a rainy Sunday afternoon."
"Much better, much more satisfying than the Disney version, but also much more depressing. I say that because if you or your child picks this up, don't look for Thumper and Co. Do look for a frank, if anthropomorphic, look at nature and man's mnteraction with it, which, usually, is not pretty."
"I absolutely loved this book. The author wrote with simple words, but arranges them so it sounds beautiful. I love simple and beautiful things. I also adore nature. Bambi's all about life in the woods. This was just the perfect book for me!"
"The differences between this book and Disney's animated version are many. As others have already mentioned, this is definitely a darker tale. I thought the beginning was slow, but by the first appearance of the fall season I was hooked. I hope that other adults will not shy away from giving this children's classic a try. You will not be disappointed.
Now that the story is over I find myself still mulling over the conversation between the two leaves. I have great respect for Salten's ability to evoke empathy for something as seemingly innocuous as a leaf. I'm also mentally munching on the face-off between the fox and the hound. That scene was incredible."
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