The Birds’ Christmas Carol

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The Birds’ Christmas Carol includes: A Little Snow Bird – “She is a little Christmas Child”; Drooping Wings; The Birds’ Nest – Carol at her window, “Birds of a Feather Flock Together”; The “Window School”; Some Other Birds are Taught to Fly – “I want ter see how yer goin’ ter behave”, “When the Pie was Opened, The Birds Began to Sing!”, “The Ruggleses never forgot it”, “I beat the hull lot o’ yer!”; The Birdling Flies Away, “My Ain Countree”, “I thought of the Star in the East”.

Kate Douglas Wiggin was a US teacher and writer of kiddie tales, much noteworthy is the historical kiddie tale, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She formed the first complimentary kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 – the Silver Street Free Kindergarten. With her sister, she also instituted a learning school for kindergarten educators. Kate Wiggin dedicated her grown-up life to the happiness of kids in a period when kids were usually considered as inexpensive work.

Kate sojourned to California to learn kindergarten approaches. She started to become a teacher in San Francisco with her sister Nora Smith lending her a hand, and the two were influential in the formation of more than 60 kindergartens for the needy in San Francisco and Oakland.

She also wrote the following: The Story of Patsy; Timothy’s Quest, illustrated by Oliver Herford; Polly Oliver’s Problem; A Cathedral Courtship, and Penelope’s English Experiences; The Village Watch-Tower; Penelope’s Progress; Penelope’s Travels in Scotland; Penelope’s Irish Experiences; The Diary of a Goose Girl, illustrated by Claude A. Shepperson; Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; Half-a-Dozen Housekeepers; Rose o’ the River; New Chronicles of Rebecca; Homespun Tales; The Old Peabody Pew; Susanna and Sue; Mother Carey’s Chickens; Robinetta; A Child’s Journey with Dickens; The Story of Waitstill Baxter; The Romance of a Christmas Card; A Summer in a Canon: A California Story; and other notable works.
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