The Birds' Christmas Carol

“It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.””

— Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

“A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.””

— Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

“Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None of your meek, gentle, nonsensical, shilly-shallying snow-storms; not the sort where the flakes float lazily down from the sky as if they didn't care whether they ever got here or not, and then melt away as soon as they touch the earth, but a regular business-like whizzing, whirring, blurring, cutting snow-storm, warranted to freeze and stay on! ””

— Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

“Hugh refused to leave the scene of the action. He seated himself on the top stair in the hall, banged his head against the railing a few times, just by way of uncorking the vials of his wrath, and then subsided into gloomy silence, waiting to declare war if more “first girl babies” were thrust upon a family already surfeited with that unnecessary article.””

— Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

“To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.””

— Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin