“Best Christmas Pageant Ever” review: Tame the terrors of the city in a new take on the Kid-Lit classic – Blogging Sole

“Best Christmas Pageant Ever” review: Tame the terrors of the city in a new take on the Kid-Lit classic

 – Blogging Sole

Initially a magazine short story, then expanded into novel form in 1972, Barbara Robinson’s “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” has remained a holiday staple ever since. Its delightful central conceit of Roald Dahl-style comic ugliness – the first sentence pegs the main characters as “the worst children ever to have ever lived in the history … Read more