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| The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, 1972. By Barbara Robinson. |
The story of the 6 Herdman children and how they unexpectedly starred in “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” have delighted millions for 53 years.
A treasure from the Christmas Library is a rare 1st edition of the short novel by Barbara Robinson (1927-2013). I recently acquired this copy from a missions thrift store.
As a child in the 1990s, my elementary school teachers showed the 1983 made for tv adaptation with the late actress Loretta Swit. The scenes with Imogene as Mary weeping or holding the Baby Jesus tenderly and the scene of her taking off her earrings struck me as a little boy. It was the most religiously reverent media moment of my school days, next to Linus explaining the meaning of Christmas to Charlie Brown.
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