Little Miss Spider : a Christmas wish

Format:

Book

Title:

Little Miss Spider : a Christmas wish

Other title(s):

Christmas wish

Author:

Kirk, David, 1955-

ISBN:

9780439314633

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

33 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.

Series title(s):

Little Miss Spider.

General Note:

"The paintings in this book are oils on paper"--CIP, p. facing title page.

Summary:

"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 ..."

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.1 0.5 63495.

Reading Counts RC K-2 2.3 1 Quiz: 26442 Guided reading level: J.

Subject(s):

Spiders -- Juvenile fiction.

Beetles -- Juvenile fiction.

Wishes -- Juvenile fiction.

Loneliness -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship in children -- Juvenile fiction.

English language -- Rhyme -- Juvenile fiction.

Spiders -- Fiction.

Stories in rhyme.

Christmas -- Fiction.

Beetles -- Fiction.

Genre:

Christmas stories, American -- Juvenile fiction.

Picture books for children -- Juvenile fiction.

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Woodburn Public Library	E KIRK	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Dayton Public Library	KIRK	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Lyons Public Library	JP KIRK	Searching... Unknown
Searching... McMinnville Public Library	Christmas Picture Book Kirk	Searching... Unknown
Searching... McMinnville Public Library	Christmas Picture Book Kirk	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Mount Angel Public Library	E HOL KIRK	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Newberg Public Library	KIRK	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Newberg Public Library	KIRK	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Willamina Public Library	JP HOLIDAY KIRK	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Could the orphaned beetle Asparagus be the little brother Little Miss Spider has wished so hard for?

Author Notes

The uncommonly unique imagination of David Kirk has an equally uncommon source. "I found a small copy of The Gnomes' Almanac by a little-known Viennese author Ida Bohtta Morpugo. It was a cutout book simply subtitled: A Book for Children. In it, the pictures and verse about bugs, butterflies, and mice really came to life." That got him drawing and writing. Before that he made children's toys by hand. "I love making stories. The bookmaking process is a liberation for me from the years I toiled to produce handmade items. I think the life of a children's book author is bliss." Kirk lives in upstate New York, with his wife and three daughters.For more information about David Kirk, visit: scholastic.com/tradebooks

Reviews (1)

Horn Book Review

On Christmas, Little Miss Spider wishes for a friend. After a day spent playing in the snow with Asparagus Beetle, she gets her wish when she and her mother adopt the poor homeless insect. Of interest to Miss Spider fans only, this book features a stale premise, a forced rhyming text, overly busy oil illustrations done in Crayola-like colors, and a saccharine conclusion. From HORN BOOK Fall 2002, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.