"Have you heard of The Grumpus? No, I don't suppose you have, until now, because there is only one Grumpus in the whole world. The Grumpus is a big, grumbly, huffy-puffy, grumpy grump of a creature who doesn't like anybody. Or anything. At all. And the one thing he really doesn't like, above all else, is Christmas. And on one particularly cold, frosty winter's morning, The Grumpus hatches a Dastardly, Dreadful Christmas Plan - to go to the North Pole and stop Christmas once and for all! (Oh no!) So start reading, and let me tell you about The Grumpus's wicked plan, and how his adventure to the North Pole didn't turn out to be at all as he planned..." -- Publisher.