TY - BOOK AU - Wiggin,Kate Douglas Smith TI - The Birds' Christmas Carol AV - PZPS PY - 1996/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Christmas stories KW - Children's stories KW - Terminally ill children -- Juvenile fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds%27_Christmas_Carol; Release date is 1996-11-01; Produced by Judith Boss. HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Birds' Christmas Carol" by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin is a novel published in 1888. The story follows Carol Bird, a generous and cheerful girl born on Christmas Day who touches everyone she meets. When illness confines her to bed at age ten, Carol focuses her remaining energy on planning a special Christmas celebration for the nine children of the Ruggles family, a poor working-class household living nearby. This moral tale balances heartfelt sentiment with humor and intelligence. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/721 ER -