The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Script),   ISBN:9780573617454

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I read this book years ago, and I am letting my fourth and fifth grade students read it. They are laughing and enjoying the Herdman family and feel sorry for the their classmates and neighbors. As I remember there is a play script also.

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I read this book for the first time many years ago and it remains one of my favorites. Funny and moving. A read to please all ages!

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I read this book years ago...It is funny but also has
a serious side to it. I love the humor but also the
lesson in seeing the Christmas story with the eyes of
children who have been denied the right to go to church.
I bought it this time as a gift for an inmate at our County Jail.
It gave him a big smile.

Kathy in Las Vegas

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Every year a number of new books appear for the Christmas season, seeking to show new significance to old customs, or sometimes merely to put a contemporary story in a holiday context to stimulate sales. Most of those little books disappear from memory as quickly as the year's ornaments and greenery. This book is one whose value and impact seems to grow from year to year. It can be enjoyed by kids of most ages, and it holds the interest and challenges the thinking of adults. The book is worth reading again and again--privately and out loud. The audiobook is an excellent presentation. The movie adaptation, though sharing the limits of any visual interpretation of a piece of literature, is quite faithful to the facts and spirit of the story and has a particularly poignant wrap-up. Highly recommended!

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"The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" is probably the best book ever, in my humble opinion! Believe me, it is not just a children's book whatsoever. My mother and I actually sat in the hospital an extra hour so we could finish reading it before going home! The author has quite the sense of humor, and will have you laughing along as you read this politically-incorrect book on six dysfunctional siblings who decide to be in the church's Christmas play because they were told they had "refreshments" there. It is a great gift for everyone on your list this season, and will likely become a household name. It most certainly made me feel better about my dysfunctional family! It's "political incorrectness" makes it all the more funny- you can't get this kind of sick quality humor anywhere but the 70s! I'm buying it for everyone I know!