Reviews for Best Christmas Pageant Ever

The average rating for Best Christmas Pageant Ever based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-02-10 00:00:00 Jennifer Lowe Have now read this aloud to my kids two years in a row. One year I hope to be able to make it through the end without sobbing. 2012 reread: It's just not Christmas until you've cried over this book! 2013 reread: Managed to hold it together until the very last paragraph. My kids think I'm nuts for bawling at the end of every Christmas story I read them. One day I hope they'll be crying with me! 2014: Ugh. So much crying at the end! Made it through most of it, though. 2015: Blubbered my way through the end. 2017: Cheated the open sobbing by having the two oldest take turns reading the ending in the car on the way to a family dinner. We had to sit in the parking lot for five minutes to finish (per the kids' request). I was able to bawl silently in the dark. I really felt like the 13yo and 9yo GOT it this year. 2018: Made it to the last page. Will never be able to finish that dry-eyed. Handed it to the 14yo. 2019: Last three pages read by the 15yo. Also had the 11yo do a bit of the reading, because she really wanted to! 2020: Pulled it out to read the finish last night, my now 12yo daughter said, Do I need to read the last page for you? Yes, the last three pages, actually!

Review # 2 was written on 2018-12-02 00:00:00 Jordan Tetting After some problems with one Christmas book (which I had to delete), I found myself under the spell of this book. It amply deserves all the praise it got and is getting. Going in, I didn't have many expectations and the first chapter seemed tepid. But then that direction the story took enhanced its quality. For a feelgood book, it was never sentimental. It was realistic, wise, funny even. I didn't get any cheap vibes coming from the ending. Those villainous little children didn't seem to change for the better. But the Christmas pageant, was truly a miracle that was rooted in realism. I think the author caught lightning in a bottle. I fully recommend it.