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.