The early years of Bambi, a young deer, and the trials he will need to face in the forest. A story of initiation into nature, a hymn that invites us to feel the magic, beauty, and dangers of wildlife. Benjamin Lacombe's modern illustration wonderfully highlights Felix Salten's classic text. Alternating between charcoal sketching and color painting, moving between fleeting artistic atmosphere and delicate obsession, it immerses us in the life of the forest, filled with the rustling of experiences and the hissing of conflicting feelings. A book with a "lace" cover and a surprise tour among the trees of the forest. The name Bambi is associated in our imagination with idyllic scenes flooded with a delightful sense of innocence, combined with Walt Disney's famous film. In reality, the animated film offers only a visual variation—compared to a literary adaptation—of a novel that remains largely unknown: Felix Salten's masterpiece, the flagship of Austrian literature, originally titled Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde (Bambi: A Life in the Woods).