Ten-year-old Aldo lives with his family in Colorado. He's not athletic
like his older brother; he's not a rock hound like his best friend; and
he is none too fond of the outdoors--but that doesn't mean he doesn't
have a passion. Aldo is passionate about bacon. Back at school adjusting
to life in the 5th grade, Aldo is embarrassed about his artistic
abilities. He has always underplayed his creative talent at school; but
when he is around his cute new art teacher he suddenly finds himself
behaving strangely. He loses the ability to speak when she's around,
volunteers to skip recess so he can clean paintbrushes, and finds
himself working harder than ever before in a daring attempt to win the
school art contest. The humorous plot and lively drawings in this book
will captivate both enthusiastic and reluctant young readers who will
identify with Aldo's all-too-familiar predicaments.
This fourth installment in an A-to-Z alphabet series features a
vocabulary-building glossary of fun and challenging words starting with
the letter D, such as debacle, doofus, and defenestrate.