The Original Bambi - Felix Salten and Alenka Sottler

The Original Bambi - The Story of a Life in the Forest by Felix Salten, translated by Jack Zipes, illustrated by Alenka Sottler / ISBN 9780691197746 / 192-page hardback from Princeton UP I had to stock this one in particular for Alenka Sottler's lovely illustrations. I featured her work on 50 Watts in the past and I think this is her first US appearance. *** A new, beautifully illustrated translation of Felix Salten’s celebrated novel Bambi―the original source of the beloved story Most of us think we know the story of Bambi―but do we? The Original Bambi is an all-new, illustrated translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told. For decades, readers’ images of Bambi have been shaped by the 1942 Walt Disney film―an idealized look at a fawn who represents nature’s innocence―which was based on a 1928 English translation of a novel by the Austrian Jewish writer Felix Salten. This masterful new translation gives contemporary readers a fresh perspective on