The Aldo Zelnick Comic Novel Series

This illustrated middle-grade series is for kids 7 to 13. It's been called vitamin-fortified Wimpy Kid.
Click on a cover to be taken to AldoZelnick.com, where you can learn about each book, meet Aldo and friends, and download activities!

Softcover do-it-yourself art-o-biography for kids

The first book in this alphabetical series

Aldo and Jack find a ring. Is it real or bogus?

Aldo spends a week on a farm—with no electronics.

Aldo is tongue-tied around his new art teacher.

It's a dark and stormy Halloween...

Aldo & Jack find a dinosaur fossil. Fortune and glory?

Aldo's school is dropping pizza for lunch!

The Medieval Faire brings knights AND knaves.

Aldo has a plan to get extra Christmas gifts.

When life gives you lousy lemons...

Could clumsy Aldo be good at skiing?

It's Valentine's Day AND Aldo's birthday.

The Year-by-Year Series

A set of three adorable, keepsake board books that double as congratulations or birthday cards for a newborn, one-year-old, and two-year-old.

You're here! Oh, you're here! Oh, you're finally here! Hip, hip, hooray! We've been waiting, my dear!

Picture Books

Full-color picture books for preschoolers

Because Kendra loves unicorns.

You're one! Oh, you're one! Oh, you'll have so much fun! So much giggling and wiggling before the year's done!

You're two! Oh, you're two! Oh, break out the kazoo! Let's have a parade for magnificent you!

For Grown-ups!

A bit of kid-lit inspired fun for the beer and coffee lovers in your life! 

In the great brew room, there was a kettle that shone, and a gramophone, and a pitcher of...a chocolate stout with two feathers of foam.

In the comfy green room, there were twinkles of chrome, and a line-up of phones, and a stainless steel pitcher...full of frothy steamed foam.