Her book lasted and lasted and lasted and remains pretty much the top Christmas chapter book for kids out there outside of A Christmas Carol. If you want proof you need only sit and wait for the holidays to roll around and for 500+ new Christmas stories to roll into bookstores and libraries, amusing briefly, lasting almost never. The difficulty in making a book like this cannot be stressed enough. She made an original Christmas story that was honestly real, human and touching. In this, Robinson’s surprising Christmas classic, she somehow managed to do the impossible. It is with the greatest of pleasure that I welcome them to this list, though. Or come to your library after school for that matter. Be thankful the Herdmans don’t live in your town. I read part of it to my class during my one year of classroom teaching, and I still remember one of my more difficult students exclaiming, about the Herdmans, “Man, they were REALLY bad!” – Libby Gorman My mom read this to us (my sister and I, and sometimes all the kids at church while we were waiting in costume for our own Christmas pageant) every Christmas, and we’d crack up every year. This year's pageant is definitely like no other, but maybe that's exactly what makes it so special.#73 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson (1972) But Christmas magic is all around and the Herdmans, who have never heard the Christmas story before, start to reimagine it in their own way. And that's just the start When the Herdmans show up at church for the free snacks and suddenly take over the Christmas pageant, the other kids are shocked. They set fire to Fred Shoemaker's toolshed, blackmailed Wanda Pierce to get her charm bracelet, and smacked Alice Wendelken across the head. Ralph, Imogene, Leroy, Claude, Ollie, and Gladys Herdman are an awful bunch. Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson The Best Christmas Pageant Ever follows the outrageous shenanigans of the Herdman siblings, or "the worst kids in the history of the world." The siblings take over the annual Christmas pageant in a hilarious yet heartwarming tale involving the Three Wise Men, a ham, scared shepherds, and six rowdy kids.
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