It was very early Christmas morning, and in the stillness of the dawn, with the soft snow falling on the housetops, a little child was born in the Bird household.
An edition of The Birds' Christmas Carol
(1889)
The Birds' Christmas Carol
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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The story is about Carol Bird, a Christmas-born child, who as a young girl is unusually loving and generous, having a positive effect on everyone with whom she comes into contact. She is the youngest member of her family and has devoted older brothers. At about the age of 5, Carol contracts an unspecified illness (possibly tuberculosis), and, by the time she is 10, she is bedridden; physicians say that she does not have long to live. The novel primarily involves Carol making plans for a Christmas celebration for the nine Ruggles children, a poor, working-class family living near the Birds. The book is a wistful moral tale about a saintly child, but is enlivened by many humorous scenes, particularly those concerning the home life of the Ruggles family.
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Chronically ill children, Families, Juvenile fiction, Christmas stories, Fiction, American Christmas stories, Juvenile literature, Christmas, Birds, Children's fiction, Christmas, fiction, Birds, fiction, Histoires de Noël, Children, Conduct of life, Children and death, Christian life, Sick, Terminally ill children, Christmas plays, DramaShowing 10 featured editions. View all 24 editions?
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Carol Bird was born on Christmas Day, and after she became ill, she helped make her last Christmas with her family and friends very special for everyone.
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