I liked the sequel, which I read first, better. The original was hampered by the fact that my mind had DISNEY MOVIE stamped all over it, and the story was not that story.
Bambi's Children features twin baby deer who then grow up and includes problems like one of them being hurt and taken care of by humans and so losing the natural fear of humans (that might have been another deer, not one of the twins, though).
The one thing I remember about Bambi, which affected religiously-inclined-but-unchurched childhood-me a lot, was when Bambi and someone--maybe his father--find a dead hunter, and one or the other of them remarks in awe that there is a force even more powerful than MAN before which even MAN is humbled. (I recall this special treatment of the word "man" but it might not have been both caps and italics... it might have been just one or the other)
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Date: 2019-09-17 06:48 pm (UTC)Bambi's Children features twin baby deer who then grow up and includes problems like one of them being hurt and taken care of by humans and so losing the natural fear of humans (that might have been another deer, not one of the twins, though).
The one thing I remember about Bambi, which affected religiously-inclined-but-unchurched childhood-me a lot, was when Bambi and someone--maybe his father--find a dead hunter, and one or the other of them remarks in awe that there is a force even more powerful than MAN before which even MAN is humbled. (I recall this special treatment of the word "man" but it might not have been both caps and italics... it might have been just one or the other)