 In German language, the content of "Bambi’s Children" is more violent, even gorier than that of "Bambi, A Life in the Woods", but violent depictions of killings and mutilated animals have been toned down or removed from the English translation so that its language appears gentler than that of "Bambi".Although the title page of the American edition claims that the English translation is “complete and unabridged,” in reality it is somewhat abridged and greatly altered in tone and content; for instance, italicized wordplay has been added to the English edition.On the other hand, the 1977 Swedish translation, "Bambis barn", is essentially abridged, without a mention of this in the book.