14. Kate Douglas Wiggin — The Birds’ Christmas Carol

An illustration from The Birds’ Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin

An illustration from The Birds’ Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin

In their latest mini episode, Amy and Kim get into the holiday spirit while discussing Kate Douglas Wiggin’s The Birds’ Christmas Carol, published in 1888. Find out how Wiggin (who also wrote Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) spent the book’s profits as well as what happened when, as a child of 11, she accidentally bumped into another Christmas Carol author, the inimitable Charles Dickens. 


Discussed in this episode: 

The Birds’ Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Elvis’s “Blue Christmas”

Johnny Cash’s “Ringing the Bells for Jim”

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

A Child’s Journey With Dickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

A Bit o’ Heaven (film, 1917)

Mrs. Spring Fragrance by Sui Sin Far

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