TY - BOOK AU - Barbara Robinson TI - The Best Christmas Pageant Ever SN - 9780064402750 AV - MLCS 2006/44360 (P) PB - HarperCollins KW - Children's literature N1 - 930 N2 - The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, smoke cigars, swear, and hit little kids. So no one is prepared when this outlaw family invades church one Sunday and decides to take over the annual Christmas pageant.None of the Herdmans has ever heard the Christmas story before. Their interpretation of the tale -- the Wise Men are a bunch of dirty spies and Herod needs a good beating -- has a lot of people up in arms. But it will make this year's pageant the most unusual anyone has seen and, just possibly, the best one ever ER -