This hilarious story concerns the efforts of a woman and her husband to put on the annual church Christmas pageant despite having to cast the Herdman kids — the meanest, nastiest, most inventively awful kids in the history of the world. You won’t believe the mayhem, and the fun, when the Herdmans meet the Christmas story in a head-on collision!

“An American Classic.”
– McCall’s Magazine

“One of the best Christmas stories ever — and certainly one of the funniest.”
– Seattle Times