"Bambi is quite remarkable: a meditation on powerlessness and survival told with great economy and sophistication."---Bill McKibben, New York Times

"In The Original Bambi, the distinguished translator Jack Zipes, has sought to restore both the dignity and the relevance of Salten’s vision; to rescue it, in a manner of speaking, from Disneyfication. . . . [The book is] bracingly free of the encrustation of sugar that the tale has accumulated over the past 100 years."---Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal

"Wonderful black-and-white illustrations. . . . Zipes is knowledgeable about his subject matter."---Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker

"A lovely new hardback edition."---Ron Charles, Washington Post

"Elegant [and] uncompromising."---Piers Torday, The Spectator

"A new translation . . . it's a dark story of brutality, loss and, ultimately, loneliness."---Richard Chin, Star Tribune

"A new, more precise translation of [Felix] Salten’s original."---Andrew Stuttaford, Spectator World

"Informative. . . . A powerful tale of the destructive side of human nature and our despotic relationship to the environment."---GrrlScientist, Forbes

"[Zipes] makes a persuasive argument for rediscovering ‘The Original Bambi.’"---Nan Cohen, Electric Literature

"With captivating drawings by award-winning artist Alenka Sottler, The Original Bambi captures the emotional impact and rich meanings of a celebrated story."

The Bookwatch

"This handsomely illustrated unabridged edition of an enchanting and moving fable for adults (and older children) belongs in every library."

Library Journal

"Substantive and thought provoking. . . . Bambi’s well-written particularity offers readers universal relatability."---Melissa Langsam Braunstein, The Dispatch

"Explanatory and illumintating. . . . Zipes’s new translation . . . give[s] us back the whole rich, multilayered complexity of Salten’s story."---Francesca Arnavas, Marvels & Tales

"Zipes’s translation of Bambi reflects Salten’s descriptive prose, bringing the animals and their challenges to life for the reader."---Miriam Kates Lock, Jerusalem Post

"The Original Bambi is a poignant story of youth, growth, and humans’ complicated relationship with nature; an enjoyable read for its own sake."---Ceri Houlbrook, Folklore

"[A] high quality translation. . . . [with] striking artwork. . . . [The Original Bambi is] a high-quality example of the value added to a text via an attentive publishing process."---Jill O'Neill, The Scholarly Kitchen