The Birds' Christmas Carol

Carol Bird is born on Christmas Day in a big, loving house, and from the first she seems a little Christmas child, generous and bright even as her health grows fragile. When she invites the nine poor Ruggles children from the little house behind the garden wall to a Christmas dinner they will never forget, the day becomes a feast of joy, mischief, and love. Kate Douglas Wiggin's 1887 story, tender and hopeful,