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Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
The Birds' Christmas Carol is a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin printed privately in 1886 and published in 1888 [1] with illustrations by Katharine R. Wireman. Wiggin published the book to help fund the Silver Street Free Kindergarten in San Francisco , which she founded in 1878.
Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge , an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of ...
NEW YORK — To hear Philip Palmer, the literary curator at the Morgan Library & Museum tell it, the story behind the writing of "A Christmas Carol" sounds, well, like something out of Charles ...
Yet it's also rich with sound — carolers singing, sleigh bells jingling, crackling fires, a hearty "ho, ho, ho" from jolly St. Nick and "A Christmas Carol," playing on the radio.
John Grisham, Skipping Christmas; Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow; C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Stephen V. Masse, Christmas Ransom formerly A Jolly Good Fellow; Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror; Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Birds' Christmas Carol
Sounds of North American Frogs is a 1958 album of frog vocalizations narrated by herpetologist Charles M. Bogert. The album includes the calls of 57 species of frogs in 92 separate tracks. The album includes the calls of 57 species of frogs in 92 separate tracks.
Robert "Bob" Cratchit is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens 1843 novel A Christmas Carol.The overworked, underpaid clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge, Cratchit has come to symbolise the poor working conditions, especially long working hours and low pay, endured by many working-class people in the early Victorian era.