It's Christmas Eve and Little Miss Spider is lonely--she doesn't have a little brother or sister to help build snowy creatures and join in her holiday games. Just when Little Miss Spider is wishing her hardest for a friend, she gets whopped with a snowball and discovers Asparagus Beetle.

"First Scholastic paperback printing, November 2002." "This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--[P. 4] of cover.