author
Caroline Crowninshield Bascom
1858–1914
A warm early-20th-century writer about birds, she is best remembered for turning everyday acts of care into lively, gentle stories for young readers. Her work invites children to look closely at animals and to treat them with kindness.
1 Audiobook
The Bird Hospital
by Caroline Crowninshield Bascom
About the author
Caroline Crowninshield Bascom (1858–1914) was an American writer remembered chiefly for The Bird Hospital, published in 1905. Library and public-domain records consistently connect her name with that book, and Wikisource identifies her as an American writer about birds.
The Bird Hospital presents simple, true stories about tending injured and pet birds. In the book's own prefatory material and later catalog descriptions, its purpose is clear: to encourage children to study birds, avoid harming them, and show kindness to living creatures.
Very little biographical detail appears to be readily documented in the reliable sources I found, so it is safest to let the surviving work speak for her. What comes through clearly is a practical love of birds and a gift for making care, observation, and sympathy feel vivid and memorable.