Finally, it was spring again when Bambi returned to the old familiar haunts, where tragedy had left him motherless!' This, of course, says that a full year had passed from Bambi's mother's death to Bambi's reunion with Faline, as the spring in which he was reunited with Faline was the second spring after Bambi's mother's death. The text in the story reads, 'Spring and summer had gone. A more precise timeline is given as to the gap between the death of Bambi's mother and Bambi's reunion and subsequent mating with Faline.Bambi did not listen, and his stubbornness is what led to his mother running out onto the meadow to warn him and being shot dead by Man. Instead, she warned Bambi to stay away from the grass, as it was on the meadow. Actually, in this version, Bambi's mother did not eat any of the grass. According to the comic strip, it was actually Bambi, not his mother, who first noticed the spring grass the two ate before the latter was killed.The Great Prince of the Forest is sometimes referred to as 'The Old Stag', the name by which he was sometimes called in Bambi: A Life in the Woods.Other than Ena's name being mentioned, this account of how Bambi met Faline is largely consistent with the account given in the film, with Gobo still being omitted. This name, as well as the fact that Bambi's mother tells Bambi that Faline's mother is, ' your Aunt Ena', implies a biological relationship between Bambi and Faline, though this is not made explicit. This is the name she bore in Bambi: A Life in the Woods, though it was not mentioned in the Bambi film. Faline's mother's name is given as Aunt Ena.It was then that his mother, who was standing nearby, warned him about the dangers of the meadow.

The bunnies had warned him not to wonder onto the meadow, but he did anyway in an attempt to win his race against them. In the comic strip, he runs out onto the meadow while racing against Thumper and his sisters. Bambi's first experience with the meadow is different here than it is in Bambi, the film.As Bambi grows, he learns about the dangers of Man, even losing his precious mother to him, and the joys of young love as he falls in love with his childhood playmate Faline, daughter of his Aunt Ena. Urn:oclc:676696533 Scandate 20110922025200 Scanner new prince, Bambi is born to his mother. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:48:21 Boxid IA112518 Boxid_2 CH120121031-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1st Random House ed.

Bambi by Bob Grant