Bambi 's Children , The Story of a Forest Family is a book written by Felix Salten , first printed and translated from German to English in 1939 . It is a sequel to Salten 's book Bambi , A Life in the Woods . Bambi 's Children , The Story of a Forest Family , originally titled Bambis Kinder , eine Familie im Walde , is a German Children 's novel written by Felix Salten as a sequel to his successful work Bambi , A Life in the Woods .