Salten wrote the sequel while living in exile in Switzerland after being forced to flee Nazi-occupied Austria as he was of Jewish heritage.

The models for Geno and Gurri were Felix Salten's own children, Paul who was careful and timid, and Anna Katharina who was merry and optimistic.

He wrote to his American publisher: “At this time I beg you most urgently, quite apart from softenings, not to advertise my work as a children’s book or to launch it otherwise in such a way.”[7]Salten's original German text of Bambis Kinder does not have chapter divisions; the text is only divided into 22 unnumbered sections by blank lines.

Barthold Fles’ English translation has also been released with illustrations by Phoebe Erickson (1976) and Richard Cowdrey (2014).

[14] Twin fawns Geno and Gurri learn the pleasures as well as downsides of nature and their forest home, as their mother Faline raises them to adulthood.

She is then taken away by the hunter (known only as "he" by some of the animals; in the English translation, he is referred to as a gamekeeper, and the name has been changed to the "brown he" because of a brown coat he wears, but such detail is never mentioned in the German text) when she is brought to the "he's" place, she meets his dog, Hector and a European eagle-owl that He captured a while ago.

The owl is kept in a cage, and he tells Gurri about the times when He uses him as a bait to attack crows and other birds of prey and shoots them.

First, Rolla asks Gurri to tell her what had happened, but she doesn't want to talk because she thinks that she would not honor her miraculous salvation and Bambi's effort properly.

When Geno starts to grow his antlers, he and Gurri discover two orphaned male fawns named Nello and Membo.

On the final page, she appears to the meadow with a newborn fawn, Ferto (this sequence, among others, is missing from the English edition).