The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
by Barbara Robinson
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Author: Barbara RobinsonBrand: Harper Collins Publishers
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-06-06
ISBN: 0064402754
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: HarperCollins
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- ISBN13: 9780064402750
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Book Review: Playtime At The Pageant
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Summary of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, smoke cigars, swear, and hit little kids. So no one is prepared when this outlaw family invades church one Sunday and decides to take over the annual Christmas pageant.
None of the Herdmans has ever heard the Christmas story before. Their interpretation of the tale -- the Wise Men are a bunch of dirty spies and Herod needs a good beating -- has a lot of people up in arms. But it will make this year's pageant the most unusual anyone has seen and, just possibly, the best one ever.
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