The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Script) [Paperback]

Barbara Robinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 14, 2009

Comedy / All Groups / 4m, 6f, plus 8 boys and 9 girls In this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids - probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem - and the fun - when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on! This delightful comedy is adapted from the best selling book and the only story ever to run twice in McCall's Magazine. "An American classic." -McCall's Magazine "One of the best Christmas stories ever - and certainly one of the funniest." - Seattle Times

Product Details

• Paperback: 56 pages
• Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.; Script edition (August 14, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0573617457
• ISBN-13: 978-0573617454
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.8 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #219,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good book, great story, but I wanted the script., August 1, 2011

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James Ziessler "trebleman" (Fresno, CA) - See all my reviews
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The book pictured in blue was not the book sent to me. I was disappointed because the other books with the same title are the story. Which is a wonderful story. But what I ordered was the blue book of the same title but it is written in "script" form to use for a play or theater application. It was very inexpensive and I didn't return or dispute it because I can always use another copy. But if the ad and the book were better identified or described I wouldn't have bought another story version, when I wanted the script instead.

I really think the picture in advertising was displayed incorrectly. I have recently ordered the blue version, which is the script format, and it came as advertised.

The script form is a wonderful application of the story to be used as a play or dramatic presentation. Very little you have to do to make it work for adults or children.

In the future, to anyone who reads this, be sure to ask if it is the story book form or script form. For some of you the story is what you want and it is indicated with a couple different types of pictures on the front of the book. The script form is as you see it, which is the blue cover and says (Script).

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a PLAY - not the short story - and it's wonderful., December 19, 2011

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Just a Putz in WI (Portage, WI) - See all my reviews

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Most reviews seem to be focusing on something other than what this is - either they are complaining about delivery or were confused about what they were ordering.

This is the PLAY version of this story, adapted by Barbara Robinson herself. We just finished a production and it's wonderful. Great story, compactly told with nice narration. If you don't know the book - get it, read it, it's a great mix of fun and honestly with a touch of a tear-maker at the end. A good mix of what is in the book, but with an eye to theatricality. There are a couple transitions that were weird for us, since the play was adapted very surely with a proscenium stage in mind, which we don't have, so curtain fly-ins and in-one scenes were really not an option, BUT...those are issues we solved.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars still haven't received - been waiting a month, January 16, 2011

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kathy custer - See all my reviews

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Monday will be one month since I ordered this item. It was scheduled to arrive at the latest a week ago. The company has been contacted and they say they will refund or send a replacement.