Perri (novel)
The first U.K. edition had an introduction by Beverley Nichols. The first U.S. edition had a foreword by Donald Culross Peattie. | |
| Author | Felix Salten |
|---|---|
| Original title | Die Jugend des Eichhörnchens Perri |
| Translator | Barrows Mussey |
| Illustrator | Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel |
| Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill Company (US) Jonathan Cape (UK) |
Publication date | 1938 |
| Pages | 228 |
Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel (German: Die Jugend des Eichhörnchens Perri) is a 1938 novel by Felix Salten, author of the 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods, and is a followup to that book. Its title character is a Eurasian red squirrel. Bambi makes a brief appearance in Perri.
The novel was first published in English translation in 1938 because the first German-language edition printed in Vienna was confiscated and destroyed by the Nazis in 1938. In 1942 the German language version was fully published by Albert Müller in Zürich, illustrated by Hans Bertle. Before a successful German-language release, the book was translated also into Hungarian in 1938, into Danish in 1939 and into Swedish in 1940; a French translation followed in 1943, a Slovak one in 1947 and a Dutch one in 1952.
In 1957, Walt Disney adapted it into a True Life Fantasy of the same name.