Great family fun. | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

A great Story for the whole family | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | Barbara Robinson

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	• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Barbara Robinson HarperTrophy, 1988 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 115 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Playtime At The Pageant

So, you like books with children that do crimes? You do? Listen up. If you don't you can still read this paper and this book. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is a hysterical book that includes some good kids, some bad kids, and a Christmas Pageant. It was written by Barbara Robinson and illustrated by Judith Gwyn Brown. Since this book was published by Harper Collins © in 1972, Robinson and Brown have also created Best Halloween Ever and Best School Year Ever. This eighty paged book has reviewing agencies; ALA Booklist, Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews, New York Times Book Review, NCTE Adventuring With Books, Publisher's Weekly, Wilson's Children's Catalog, and Wilson's Junior High Catalog.
In the Best Christmas Pageant Ever you will find Herdman children that are big troublemakers that move into town. Every year the Herdman children's town presents a Christmas Pageant in the town's church. Mother, the mother of one the child in the pageant is in charge of the whole thing. Meanwhile, the Herdman children are interested in the pageant. Imogene, one of the Herdman children, wants the part of Mary. Imogene gets her wish of having the part of Mary. All the Herdman children look up in the public library, nearby their house, what the Christmas Pageant is all about. Mother gives all of the Herdman children a part in the Pageant. The day of the Pageant Mother is stressing out about if the Pageant is going to go the way it's planned. Will Mother see what she wants to see? Read this book to find out!
I truly enjoyed reading this book when the Herdman's did something wrong. It just made the story a little more interesting. For one thing, the Herdman's are very bad children. They commit crimes, steal, smoke and lie. When people in a story have some sort of talent or is just a really bad kid it makes the story more interesting to read. Also, I thought it was very thoughtful of the Herdman children when they were interested in the Christmas Pageant. I mean, it's not every day you see really bad kids interested in a
Christian play done in a church. Finally, I couldn't help thinking why somebody would do this but; in gym class Imogene always found out everyone's weight and always mad fun of that same person because of it. I thought that was just plain old rude!
I was so impressed on how much humor this book had! Again the Herdman children were in on most of the humor. For one thing, when Mother said that she was glad the Herdmen children were at church and everyone knew that she was lying. Also, when Imogene started smoking a cigar in the bathroom, someone saw smoke coming out of the crack on the bottom of the bathroom door, that someone called the fire department! I probably would have done the same thing, but overall that's just funny! Lastly, when Imogene got a baby for the Christmas Pageant, she started talking to tell everyone what the baby's name was. Mother came rushing down the aisle telling her that you're not supposed to talk in a pageant. Mother and Imogene kept arguing on why Imogene shouldn't tell the cast what the baby's name was. Imogene would have named the baby Bill! I thought that was funny because Imogene wanted everything to go her way, and not the way it was supposed to go.
When reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever I experienced some dozing off into sleep, laughing, and some really interested eyes. So, what I really mean is that I experienced some sleeping; the thought the book was boring at some parts. Laughing, I got really bad pains in my side from laughing so much; I thought the book was very funny. Interested eyes was, that at some parts of the book I was so interested I couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen next. I would recommend this book for ages nine and up. Just because the Herdman children do some really bad things. So, I would be recommending for this book to adults and young adults. But, otherwise I would say that this book is an o.k. book.

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Great family fun.

This book is one of the most hysterically funny, heartwarming tales you can read. Our family (all adults now) reads it every Christmas eve. It's great fun for both kids and adults. I can't reccommend it more highly!

A great Story for the whole family

I first read this story when I was in gradeschool. Actually the teacher read it to us. Over 10 years later when I saw it at a used book store, I instantly picked up a copy and I don't have any kids. I re-read it myself and will read it every Christmas Season. It's about the Herdmans and the Christmas Pageant. The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world and they end up as part of the pageant.

The pageant is about the Birth of Jesus which the Herdmans know nothing about. It's a very funny story throughout and a very touching story at the end. You don't really have to be Christian to enjoy this little story. I'm not and I love the story. I definitely recommend it to almost every family as a story to be read year after year. As your kids grow, perhaps they can read it to you.

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C's Book Review

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Barbara Robinson

This book was great. I am glad I got it for Christmas. From blowing up buildings to plants growing out of ears, this book is funny. The Herdmans are like mini twisters and live in an abandoned parking lot garage. They have a deadly one eyed bobcat. I strongly recommend this to kids who like other hectic kids. I thought it was perfect. This book would probaly be realistic fiction.

96 pages of pure meaning

This book is likely the best modern Christmas story ever penned. I am amazed each time I read it. I think that the meaning of Christmas is on display in this short work. In the modern age in which we live, it is nice to see that the real purpose of Christ's coming to Earth can be seen in such a simple way. The children in this book are people you know. (Especially if you are a teacher like I am.) It is a truly wonderful gift to all of us who believe. This is one of the few books that make you cry and laugh at the same time. Read it, and let it touch your funny bone and your heart.

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