Thomas's Response to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Tom's Reader Response
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
By Barbara Robinson

Hello there! I am the way Thomas has decided to depict himself for this book response.

this book, I am assuming, will be about a pageant, but, of course,

due to the crossed-out word "worst" in the title,

some things will go wrong.

Why do people perform Christmas pageants?

This question has a simple answer, really.

SO, SO much of the nativity would have been forgotten without people reenacting it every year at Christmas time.

Just imagine, an entire holiday forgotten, just because of a play.

okay, maybe the answer isn't that simple.

what will happen when the Herdmans get mixed up in the Christmas pageant?

oh...Wow. where to start? The herdmans sound like such a rowdy bunch... I just don't know if anyone will be able to keep them under control! I think that nothing good can come from it, honestly. It will be total...

This is a summary.

Basically, so far in the story, Mother got stuck with a Christmas pageant, the demonic Herdmans joined it, and turned out to be better than everyone thought they would be. They changed the pageant for the better in ways that no one could imagine.

Reputation

The Herdmans have an awful reputation but are actually not too bad

Alice tries to ruin the Herdman's reputation further

Everyone misjudged the Herdmans based on their reputation

Reputations can be manipulated and thus should not be entirely trusted