Aldo Zelnick lays plans to receive more Christmas gifts than ever before and is very surprised on Christmas day by his plan's outcome, recording it all in his illustrated journal.

When they spend a week at their aunt and uncle's farm without any electronic entertainment, Aldo and his brother try to find other ways to occupy themselves while dealing with their twin cousins, in a book featuring vocabulary starting with C.

"When your parents name you Aldo Valentine Zelnick because you were born on February 14th, you know you've got a boyhood of Valentine's misery ahead. But this year when my 11th birthday rolled around, I decided to pretend Valentine's Day didn't exist. At my party there would be no pink, no hearts, no girls, no dancing, and no romance of any kind, thank you very much. Instead us dudes would shoot bows and arrows, wrestle, feast on hot wings, and play...