Be the first to ask a question about The Birds' Christmas Carol.Welcome back. She decides to forego Christmas gifts from her family to make another family's Christmas the best ever. It is a very nice book.This is one of my favorite books. This is the bittersweet story of the 11th Christmas of Miss Carol Bird, an invalid with a heart of gold. It centers around Carol Bird--originally destined to be named Lucy until she arrived unexpectedly on Christmas. Predicatable? Thankfully, I was still as delighted with The Birds' Christmas Carol as I was when I was 8-years-old.
".A classic Christmas tale that has been a traditional read in my family for generations. It is utterly sappy and Carol, the title character, is impossibly saint-like but in the wee hours of Christmas morning it makes for a perfect read.This Victorian novella was kept from being too sentimental by its sly humor and the presence of the rambunctious Ruggles family. There was a large family with nine children, living behind her families large home. Carol Bird is a sickly eleven-year-old who was born on Christmas Day. Truly, I'd recommend it to all ages. She grows to be an exceptionally happy, loving, and generous girl--despite the fact that she is diagnosed with an unspecified illness at age five and is bedridden by the time she is ten. It’s short, but oh, so beautiful!! You are a little Christmas child, and we will name you 'Carol'—mother's little Christmas Carol!" This story was first introduced by Wiggins in 1887 and became very popular during the first part of a 20th Century. I think I liked to think (as a little girl) that I would be this kind, generous creature, but I also really looked up to Pippi Longstocking and other trouble-making heroines, so who knows.. :),Sappy? [Angelic white girl is born on Christmas day, sustains a nonspecific crippling illness in her early childhood, is nice to poor people for a day, and dies just in time to ruin the New Year for her family.This brings back a treasured memory for me. Read it this Christmas.I had an attractive old edition of this story and I read it twice. Absolutely! Image 26 of The Birds' Christmas carol 22 The Birds’ Christmas Carol. By four a.m. all three of us had dissolved into tears. A little too moralistic for me as an adult, but I bet I would have liked it as a kid. Melodramatic? As the story says, "perhaps because she was born in holiday time, carol was a very happy baby...she may have breathed in unconsciously the fragrance of evergreens and holiday dinners; while the peals of sleigh-bells and the laughter of happy children may have fallen upon her baby ears and wakened in them a glad surprise at the merry world she had come to live in." Carol read books to them, and she shared her hundreds of books.
This book does remind me of a Dickens novel although it does not have any evil characters as is typical of his books. December 7th 2006 Obviously, I highly recommend it, but I can never get through it without crying.“It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just by being Carol, she manages to influence her unruly brothers to behave more generously to one another and her entire family learns lessons about the true meaning of Christmas from their very own Christmas Carol.I loved this book as a child. Refresh and try again.We’d love your help. I picked this up in a free library and I will most definitely be returning it. She became ill, and was bed ridden, but she shared all she had with others. Margaret Atwood’s Big Sequel Answers Readers’ Questions. lived in the alley, and the nine little, middle-sized and big Buggies children were the source of inexhaustible interest. She invited the nine children to her home for a Christmas dinner, and bought presents for each of them, with money she had earned, and her fami.This was a short sweet, tender novella.
It is a story that begins and ends at Christmas, the most joyous time of the year. It brought tears to my eyes. This beautiful carol was written by William Garnet James and John Wheeler (I have given an incorrect credit at the end).
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Be the first to ask a question about The Birds' Christmas Carol.Welcome back. She decides to forego Christmas gifts from her family to make another family's Christmas the best ever. It is a very nice book.This is one of my favorite books. This is the bittersweet story of the 11th Christmas of Miss Carol Bird, an invalid with a heart of gold. It centers around Carol Bird--originally destined to be named Lucy until she arrived unexpectedly on Christmas. Predicatable? Thankfully, I was still as delighted with The Birds' Christmas Carol as I was when I was 8-years-old.
".A classic Christmas tale that has been a traditional read in my family for generations. It is utterly sappy and Carol, the title character, is impossibly saint-like but in the wee hours of Christmas morning it makes for a perfect read.This Victorian novella was kept from being too sentimental by its sly humor and the presence of the rambunctious Ruggles family. There was a large family with nine children, living behind her families large home. Carol Bird is a sickly eleven-year-old who was born on Christmas Day. Truly, I'd recommend it to all ages. She grows to be an exceptionally happy, loving, and generous girl--despite the fact that she is diagnosed with an unspecified illness at age five and is bedridden by the time she is ten. It’s short, but oh, so beautiful!! You are a little Christmas child, and we will name you 'Carol'—mother's little Christmas Carol!" This story was first introduced by Wiggins in 1887 and became very popular during the first part of a 20th Century. I think I liked to think (as a little girl) that I would be this kind, generous creature, but I also really looked up to Pippi Longstocking and other trouble-making heroines, so who knows.. :),Sappy? [Angelic white girl is born on Christmas day, sustains a nonspecific crippling illness in her early childhood, is nice to poor people for a day, and dies just in time to ruin the New Year for her family.This brings back a treasured memory for me. Read it this Christmas.I had an attractive old edition of this story and I read it twice. Absolutely! Image 26 of The Birds' Christmas carol 22 The Birds’ Christmas Carol. By four a.m. all three of us had dissolved into tears. A little too moralistic for me as an adult, but I bet I would have liked it as a kid. Melodramatic? As the story says, "perhaps because she was born in holiday time, carol was a very happy baby...she may have breathed in unconsciously the fragrance of evergreens and holiday dinners; while the peals of sleigh-bells and the laughter of happy children may have fallen upon her baby ears and wakened in them a glad surprise at the merry world she had come to live in." Carol read books to them, and she shared her hundreds of books.
This book does remind me of a Dickens novel although it does not have any evil characters as is typical of his books. December 7th 2006 Obviously, I highly recommend it, but I can never get through it without crying.“It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just by being Carol, she manages to influence her unruly brothers to behave more generously to one another and her entire family learns lessons about the true meaning of Christmas from their very own Christmas Carol.I loved this book as a child. Refresh and try again.We’d love your help. I picked this up in a free library and I will most definitely be returning it. She became ill, and was bed ridden, but she shared all she had with others. Margaret Atwood’s Big Sequel Answers Readers’ Questions. lived in the alley, and the nine little, middle-sized and big Buggies children were the source of inexhaustible interest. She invited the nine children to her home for a Christmas dinner, and bought presents for each of them, with money she had earned, and her fami.This was a short sweet, tender novella.
It is a story that begins and ends at Christmas, the most joyous time of the year. It brought tears to my eyes. This beautiful carol was written by William Garnet James and John Wheeler (I have given an incorrect credit at the end).
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Be the first to ask a question about The Birds' Christmas Carol.Welcome back. She decides to forego Christmas gifts from her family to make another family's Christmas the best ever. It is a very nice book.This is one of my favorite books. This is the bittersweet story of the 11th Christmas of Miss Carol Bird, an invalid with a heart of gold. It centers around Carol Bird--originally destined to be named Lucy until she arrived unexpectedly on Christmas. Predicatable? Thankfully, I was still as delighted with The Birds' Christmas Carol as I was when I was 8-years-old.
".A classic Christmas tale that has been a traditional read in my family for generations. It is utterly sappy and Carol, the title character, is impossibly saint-like but in the wee hours of Christmas morning it makes for a perfect read.This Victorian novella was kept from being too sentimental by its sly humor and the presence of the rambunctious Ruggles family. There was a large family with nine children, living behind her families large home. Carol Bird is a sickly eleven-year-old who was born on Christmas Day. Truly, I'd recommend it to all ages. She grows to be an exceptionally happy, loving, and generous girl--despite the fact that she is diagnosed with an unspecified illness at age five and is bedridden by the time she is ten. It’s short, but oh, so beautiful!! You are a little Christmas child, and we will name you 'Carol'—mother's little Christmas Carol!" This story was first introduced by Wiggins in 1887 and became very popular during the first part of a 20th Century. I think I liked to think (as a little girl) that I would be this kind, generous creature, but I also really looked up to Pippi Longstocking and other trouble-making heroines, so who knows.. :),Sappy? [Angelic white girl is born on Christmas day, sustains a nonspecific crippling illness in her early childhood, is nice to poor people for a day, and dies just in time to ruin the New Year for her family.This brings back a treasured memory for me. Read it this Christmas.I had an attractive old edition of this story and I read it twice. Absolutely! Image 26 of The Birds' Christmas carol 22 The Birds’ Christmas Carol. By four a.m. all three of us had dissolved into tears. A little too moralistic for me as an adult, but I bet I would have liked it as a kid. Melodramatic? As the story says, "perhaps because she was born in holiday time, carol was a very happy baby...she may have breathed in unconsciously the fragrance of evergreens and holiday dinners; while the peals of sleigh-bells and the laughter of happy children may have fallen upon her baby ears and wakened in them a glad surprise at the merry world she had come to live in." Carol read books to them, and she shared her hundreds of books.
This book does remind me of a Dickens novel although it does not have any evil characters as is typical of his books. December 7th 2006 Obviously, I highly recommend it, but I can never get through it without crying.“It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just by being Carol, she manages to influence her unruly brothers to behave more generously to one another and her entire family learns lessons about the true meaning of Christmas from their very own Christmas Carol.I loved this book as a child. Refresh and try again.We’d love your help. I picked this up in a free library and I will most definitely be returning it. She became ill, and was bed ridden, but she shared all she had with others. Margaret Atwood’s Big Sequel Answers Readers’ Questions. lived in the alley, and the nine little, middle-sized and big Buggies children were the source of inexhaustible interest. She invited the nine children to her home for a Christmas dinner, and bought presents for each of them, with money she had earned, and her fami.This was a short sweet, tender novella.
It is a story that begins and ends at Christmas, the most joyous time of the year. It brought tears to my eyes. This beautiful carol was written by William Garnet James and John Wheeler (I have given an incorrect credit at the end).
<33.Oh my word! by Book Jungle.There are no discussion topics on this book yet.Thirty-four years after the publication of her dystopian classic, The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood returns to continue the story of Offred. My aunt read it to me as a child. I was amazed that the toughest teacher at Slauson was so sentimental.This was a short sweet, tender novella. "Why, Donald, don't you think 'Carol' is a sweet name for a Christmas baby?
Be the first to ask a question about The Birds' Christmas Carol.Welcome back. She decides to forego Christmas gifts from her family to make another family's Christmas the best ever. It is a very nice book.This is one of my favorite books. This is the bittersweet story of the 11th Christmas of Miss Carol Bird, an invalid with a heart of gold. It centers around Carol Bird--originally destined to be named Lucy until she arrived unexpectedly on Christmas. Predicatable? Thankfully, I was still as delighted with The Birds' Christmas Carol as I was when I was 8-years-old.
".A classic Christmas tale that has been a traditional read in my family for generations. It is utterly sappy and Carol, the title character, is impossibly saint-like but in the wee hours of Christmas morning it makes for a perfect read.This Victorian novella was kept from being too sentimental by its sly humor and the presence of the rambunctious Ruggles family. There was a large family with nine children, living behind her families large home. Carol Bird is a sickly eleven-year-old who was born on Christmas Day. Truly, I'd recommend it to all ages. She grows to be an exceptionally happy, loving, and generous girl--despite the fact that she is diagnosed with an unspecified illness at age five and is bedridden by the time she is ten. It’s short, but oh, so beautiful!! You are a little Christmas child, and we will name you 'Carol'—mother's little Christmas Carol!" This story was first introduced by Wiggins in 1887 and became very popular during the first part of a 20th Century. I think I liked to think (as a little girl) that I would be this kind, generous creature, but I also really looked up to Pippi Longstocking and other trouble-making heroines, so who knows.. :),Sappy? [Angelic white girl is born on Christmas day, sustains a nonspecific crippling illness in her early childhood, is nice to poor people for a day, and dies just in time to ruin the New Year for her family.This brings back a treasured memory for me. Read it this Christmas.I had an attractive old edition of this story and I read it twice. Absolutely! Image 26 of The Birds' Christmas carol 22 The Birds’ Christmas Carol. By four a.m. all three of us had dissolved into tears. A little too moralistic for me as an adult, but I bet I would have liked it as a kid. Melodramatic? As the story says, "perhaps because she was born in holiday time, carol was a very happy baby...she may have breathed in unconsciously the fragrance of evergreens and holiday dinners; while the peals of sleigh-bells and the laughter of happy children may have fallen upon her baby ears and wakened in them a glad surprise at the merry world she had come to live in." Carol read books to them, and she shared her hundreds of books.
This book does remind me of a Dickens novel although it does not have any evil characters as is typical of his books. December 7th 2006 Obviously, I highly recommend it, but I can never get through it without crying.“It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just by being Carol, she manages to influence her unruly brothers to behave more generously to one another and her entire family learns lessons about the true meaning of Christmas from their very own Christmas Carol.I loved this book as a child. Refresh and try again.We’d love your help. I picked this up in a free library and I will most definitely be returning it. She became ill, and was bed ridden, but she shared all she had with others. Margaret Atwood’s Big Sequel Answers Readers’ Questions. lived in the alley, and the nine little, middle-sized and big Buggies children were the source of inexhaustible interest. She invited the nine children to her home for a Christmas dinner, and bought presents for each of them, with money she had earned, and her fami.This was a short sweet, tender novella.
It is a story that begins and ends at Christmas, the most joyous time of the year. It brought tears to my eyes. This beautiful carol was written by William Garnet James and John Wheeler (I have given an incorrect credit at the end).
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