the best christmas pageant ever book review

When they heard about Herod, they wanted to beat him up. They declared that you can get better gifts from the firemen each year at Christmas. They were annoyed at the gifts the Wisemen brought to Jesus, because to them, they were useless. When they find out about swaddling clothes and the manger, they want to know why child welfare wasn’t called on Mary and Joseph, for tying Jesus up and putting him in a feedbox.

Imogene wants to know why Joseph didn’t speak up. Ralph wants to know why Mary didn’t tell them about Jesus since she knew. Imogene is appalled when there is no room at the Inn for Jesus to be born. With the narrator’s mother leading the play, you get a good inside look at everything as it unfolds at the rehearsals. It just happens to be the day the announcement was made for the beginning of the Christmas Pageant rehearsals.ĭue to intimidation from the Herdmans, no one volunteers for their original roles and Imogene takes the part of Mary, Ralph the part of Joseph and the other children fill in as Wisemen and The Angel of the Lord. The Herdman children come to church, looking for desserts they were led to believe were being distributed during Sunday School. But when the mother of the narrator of the book, gets stuck directing the Christmas Pageant for the first time, and the Herdmans, who have never heard the Christmas story, take over, the reader is in for a treat. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, by Barbara Robinson, copyrighted in 1972, takes a hilarious look at a family of six children, being raised by a single mom, who are running wild and terrorizing the school and town.Įveryone in town tries their best to avoid the Herdman children: Ralph, Imogene, Ollie, Claude, Leroy and Gladys, because interactions with them result in pain, embarrassment, or torture. Hint: it’s a fun book for the adults as well.

Since this is the beginning of the week of Christmas, I wanted to review a book that would be fun to read to your children, or grandchildren this week.

The best christmas pageant ever book review