Perri (novel)

Perri
The first U.K. edition had an introduction by Beverley Nichols. The first U.S. edition had a foreword by Donald Culross Peattie.
AuthorFelix Salten
Original titleDie Jugend des Eichhörnchens Perri[1]
TranslatorBarrows Mussey
IllustratorLudwig Heinrich Jungnickel[2]
PublisherBobbs-Merrill Company (US)
Jonathan Cape (UK)
Publication date
1938
Pages228

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.[3] 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.[4] In 1942 the German language erosion was fully published by Albert Müller in Zürich, illustrated by Hans Bertle.[5] Before a successful German-language release, the book was translated also into Hungarian in 1938,[6] into Danish in 1939[7] and into Swedish in 1940;[8] a French translation followed in 1943,[9] a Slovak one in 1947[10] and a Dutch one in 1952.[11]

In 1957, Walt Disney adapted it into a True Life Fantasy of the same name.

  1. ^ Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Die Jugend des Eichhörnchens Perri.
  2. ^ Library of Congress: Perri.
  3. ^ Thorington, Richard W. and Ferrell, Katie (2006). Squirrels: The Animal Answer Guide. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-8402-0.
  4. ^ Eddy, Beverley Driver (2010). Felix Salten: Man of Many Faces. Riverside (Ca.): Ariadne Press. pp. 281–283, 291–292, 298. ISBN 978-1-57241-169-2.
  5. ^ Felix Salten. Archiv für die Geschichte der Soziologie in Österreich.
  6. ^ Országos Széchényi Könyvtár: Perri: Egy mókus regénye.
  7. ^ Det Kongelige Bibliotek: Perri: Historien om et Egerns Ungdom.
  8. ^ Kungliga biblioteket: Ekorren Perris ungdom.
  9. ^ Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek: Perri l’ecureuil.
  10. ^ Národní knihovna ČR: Mladost veveričky Perri.
  11. ^ Perri, de geschiedenis van een eekhoorntje. Den Haag: Stok. 1952.