TY - BOOK AU - Wiggin,Kate Douglas Smith TI - The Birds' Christmas Carol AV - PZ PY - 2008/// 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 2008-01-14; Produced by David Starner, Greg Bergquist, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; 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 Christmas-born child known for her loving and generous nature. At age five, Carol contracts a serious illness, and by ten, she is bedridden with little time left. Despite her condition, the cheerful and intelligent girl focuses on planning a special Christmas celebration for the nine children of the poor Ruggles family who live nearby. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24286 ER -