The Best Barbara Robinson CD Audio Collection Ever

by Barbara Robinson, Elaine Stritch (Reader)

The worst kids in the history of the world Featured in 3 unabridged recordings narrated by Grammy-nominated Elaine Stritch.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER: When the Herdmans storm Sunday school and take over the annual Christmas pageant, everyone braces for the worst. But no one is prepared for what really happens when the rottenest kids in the world take over the greatest story ever told. It's a pageant full of surprises for everyone -- including the Herdmans themselves.

THE BEST SCHOOL YEAR EVER: When anything goes wrong at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, from the hexing of Bus Six to the mysterious disappearance of the kindergarten gerbil, it's sure to have a Herdman behind it. Then a school project forces the students to think of compliments for all their classmates -- including the Herdmans. Is it possible that behind their outrageous behavior there may be something good about this crazy clan after all?

THE BEST HALLOWEEN EVER: The mayor, who has had it with the Herdmans and their shenanigans, has decided to cancel the town's Halloween. Instead, Halloween will take place at school, but there won't be any candy And what's Halloween without trick-or-treating and candy? The Herdmans know the answer to this question, and in a hilarious turn of events, manage to turn the worst Halloween ever into the best Halloween ever

Performed by Elaine Stritch

Audio CD

First published September 1, 2005

About the author

I grew up in a southern Ohio river town -- Portsmouth -- and that small town atmosphere has affected most of my writing.
My mother, widowed when I was three years old, taught school for forty-nine years in that same small town, and her major (indeed, only) extravagance was books. I grew up with, and quickly adopted, the notion that reading was the only way to fill up every scrap of loose time you could snatch.

I had the benefit, as well, of a wide variety of aunts and uncles and cousins, plus the extended family so common to small town life -- the neighbors, friends, teachers, bus drivers, mailmen, local heroes and local neâer-do-wells, and even a local blacksmith...great stuff to feed the imagination.

I began writing very early -- poems, plays, stories -- and just never quit. I attended local schools and then, being both book-struck and stage-struck, found a college -- Allegheny College -- where I could satisfy both passions.

I've been a short story writer, with some forty-fifty stories in McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, etc.; a playwright; an occasional poet, and finally and most happily, an author of children's books...happily, because there's no greater audience than boys and girls who read books and demand that those books be the most exciting, the most mysterious, the most touching, the funniest...the Best.

I live and write in a suburb of Philadelphia, and I have two daughters -- Carolyn, who is a nurse, and Marjorie, who is a sixth grade teacher and at home now with my grandchildren Tomas and Marcos, and all these people read books like crazy!

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful presentation! The Christmas story was the best - I was laughing and crying.

[Harley]

Harley