New York: Harper Collins Children's Books, 1972. She is survived by two daughters, Carolyn and Marjorie, and three grandchildren: Tomas, Marcos, and Lucas.The following version of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever was used to create this guide: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
To me, that was just Mom.” Barbara Robinson died in 2013 at the age of 85. Robinson’s daughter Marjorie says, “My memory as a kid is coming into the house and seeing my mother standing at the island in the kitchen, typing away at her typewriter. ABC television produced a television movie of the story in 1983 starring Loretta Swit, for which Robinson wrote the screenplay. Since then it has been performed every Christmas at churches, in classrooms, and in professional and community theatres across the U.S. Robinson adaptation of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever premiered at the Seattle Children’s Theater in 1982. She also wrote My Brother Louis Measures Worms and other Louis Stories. She then went on to write two sequels starring the Herdmans: The Best School Year Ever (Harper, 1994 ) and The Best Halloween Ever (HarperCollins, 2004). This story of the Herdman kids, who were “the worst kids in the history of the world,” was such a success that Robinson expanded it into a novel. Robinson wrote dozens of short stories for Ladies’ Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, and Redbook before publishing the short story “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” for McCall’s in 1971. In 2012, it was also included in School Library Journal’s Top Hundred Children’s Novels list. The book, which fans consider to be a holiday classic, is an ALA Notable Children’s Book and received the Georgia Children’s Book Award, the Indiana’s Young Hoosier Book Award, and Minnesota’s Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award. Barbara Robinson is the author of the hugely popular children’s novel, The Best Christmas Ever (Harper, 1972).
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