MISS SPIDER

Trade Titles from Callaway

HUMBUG!

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2006
$17.99 • Hardcover with foil jacket, 12 x 9 ¾ inches • 32 pages

Every year on winter solstice night, the dream bug brings sweet dreams to Sunny Patch’s good little bugs. When Bounce needs Spiderus’ help delivering berries to some needy earwigs, Spiderus greedily eats the tasty treats himself. Can Spiderus reform his humbug attitude in time for a visit from the dream bug?

CRY BUGGIE

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication date: Fall 2006
$6.99 • Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches • 32 pages

When Dragon tells Squirt that big bugs don’t cry, Miss Spider teaches them that it’s okay to let one’s feelings show.

EIGHT LEGS UP

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2006
$6.99 • Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches • 32 pages

When Snowdrop thinks that having eight legs makes her clumsy, Miss Spider teaches her that bugs come in all different shapes and sizes.

THE LISTENING WALK

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2005
$17.99 • Hardcover with jacket, 11 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches • 32 pages

What to do when the bugaboos strike? Miss Spider has the perfect solution when she takes her bashful son Wiggle on a moonlit walk to put faces to the spooky sounds he hears throughout the night. Join them as they discover that nightlife in Sunny Patch is filled with beautiful surprises.

DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2005
$12.99 • Hardcover with foil jacket, 12 x 9 3/4 inches • 32 pages

Jolly Holly Day! ’Tis the season to celebrate winter in Sunny Patch. Miss Spider and her sons Dragon and Bounce must journey through a winter wonderland to get home for their family’s Holly Day feast. When a storm threatens to keep them snow-bound, their friends and neighbors come to the rescue and see them safely home. A touching holiday story about the spirit of kindness and the joy of family.

WIGGLE’S SQUIGGLES

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2005
$14.99 • Hardcover with Pop-Up, 8 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches • 32 pages

Miss Spider’s son Wiggle is excited for his first art class. But when his painting doesn’t look like the others, he thinks he’s just no good. Join the entire Spider family in this delightful story—with a pop-up surprise—about learning to appreciate your special talents.

I’LL FLY AWAY

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Summer 2005
$6.99 • Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches • 32 pages

Dragon discovers that staying with the family he loves is more important than any flying adventure.

A CLOUDY DAY IN SUNNY PATCH

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: 2005
$6.99 • Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches • 32 pagesSummer

When Shimmer’s hatchday party is rained out, her friends and family come together to make her celebration the bee’s knees.

MISS SPIDER’S SUNNY PATCH KIDS

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Spring 2004
$14.95 • US co-publisher: Scholastic Press • Hardcover, 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches • 40 pages

Miss Spider and Holley are buggy with excitement—they’re hatching a family of their own! Travel along with everyone’s eight-legged charmer and her children in this delightful adventure and discover how love at the heart of a family spins twice as much joy when it is shared with others.

LITTLE MISS SPIDER: A CHRISTMAS WISH

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2000
$12.95 • US co-publisher: Scholastic Press • Hardcover with jacket, 9 x 6 3/4 inches • 32 pages • 35 original paintings

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. Could Asparagus be the little brother Little Miss Spider has wished so hard for? This charming tale is a sparkling holiday story about generosity and compassion, and finding one’s way home.

LITTLE MISS SPIDER AT SUNNY PATCH SCHOOL

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2000
$12.95 • US co-publisher: Scholastic Press • Foreign edition: Australia • Hardcover with jacket, 9 x 6 3/4 inches • 32 pages • 35 original paintings

In this, the second Little Miss Spider adventure, the adorable tiny spider is preparing for her first day at Sunny Patch School. Full of excitement and trepidation, she tries her hardest to master her new exercises. The menagerie of new school friends, and the ever sparkling, simple rhymes of Kirk’s lilting tale will keep all children coming back time after time.

MISS SPIDER’S ABC: THE BOARD BOOK

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Spring 2000
$8.95 • US co-publisher: Scholastic Press • Foreign edition: Australia • Board book, 7 x 5 inches • 30 pages • 30 full-color paintings

From ant to zebra butterfly, Miss Spider’s friends are preparing for her surprise birthday party in this exquisitely illustrated ABC book. Younger kids will love, and learn from, this board book version of David Kirk’s best-selling ABC picture book.

LITTLE MISS SPIDER

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Published October 1999
$12.95 • US co-publisher: Scholastic Press • Foreign edition: Australia • Hardcover with jacket, 9 x 6 3/4 inches • 32 pages • 35 original paintings

On the very first day of her life, Miss Spider discovers her mom is nowhere to be found. She sets out in search of her, and after many adventures, the little Miss Spider learns a valuable lesson. Told through David Kirk’s simple verse and brilliant oil paintings – in a new format of books that introduces us to Miss Spider’s early years – this heartwarming story is sure to please all her many fans.

MISS SPIDER’S NEW CAR: THE BOARD BOOK

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Published Spring 1999
$8.95 • US co-publisher: Scholastic Press • Foreign edition: Australia • Board book, 7 x 5 inches • 30 pages • 30 full-color paintings

Beep! beep! Little ones will love their very own version of this thrilling adventure based on David Kirk’s best-selling picture book Miss Spider’s New Car. With fun, easy rhymes on every page and brilliant illustrations of the imaginative bug vehicles, kids will be racing back for another read.

MISS SPIDER’S ABC

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Published Fall 1998
$16.95 • US co-publisher: Scholastic Press • Foreign edition: Australia • Hardcover with jacket, 11 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches • 32 pages • 35 original full-color paintings

From ant to zebra butterfly, Miss Spider’s friends are preparing for her surprise birthday party in this exquisitely illustrated ABC picture book. Each turn of the page reveals another fun and fanciful guest, from ladybugs and moths to net-wings and owlflies. Kirk’s lilting poem and signature eye-popping palette provide a gentle and humorous way to introduce children to the letters of the alphabet.

MISS SPIDER’S NEW CAR

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Published October 1997
$16.95 • US co-publisher: Scholastic Press • Foreign editions: France, Australia • Hardcover with jacket, 11 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches • 32 pages • 35 original full-color paintings

Buckle up! Everyone’s favorite spider and her new husband Holley are off to find their dream car! Take a spin with these two lovable spiders through the web of choices possible only in the fantastical world of Miss Spider. There’s the turbo-bumble hot rod, the flexo-flea spring hop-mobile, the sleek and spirally Escargot, and many other supercharged bug buggies.

MISS SPIDER’S WEDDING

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Published Fall 1995
$15.95 • Total copies in print: 530,000 • US co-publisher: Scholastic Press • Foreign editions: France, Holland, Australia, UK, Germany, Japan • Hardcover with jacket, 11 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches • 40 pages • 40 original full-color paintings

Everyone’s favorite spider is spinning with joy—she has found her Mr. Right! Once again, Kirk serves up an irresistible tale about the rewards of honesty, loyalty, kindness, and the power of true love, with a new cast of characters that includes Miss Spider’s heroic beau, Holley, and his sinister rival, Spiderus Reeves.

MISS SPIDER’S TEA PARTY

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Published Spring 1994
$15.95 • Total copies in print: 900,000 • US co-publisher: Scholastic Press • Foreign editions: UK, France, Holland, Australia, Germany, Japan • Hardcover with jacket, 11 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches • 32 pages • 35 original full-color paintings • Paperback edition (Fall 1999),
$4.99

After fifteen years making toys and art for children, David Kirk, a real-life Geppetto, wrote and illustrated his first children’s picture book about a lonely, lovable lady spider’s quest to make friends and overcome prejudice. An instant best-seller, Miss Spider’s Tea Party became the decade’s biggest and fastest-selling children’s book by a new author and established Miss Spider—and David Kirk—as a family entertainment sensation.

Mass-Market Titles from Grosset & Dunlap and Callaway

ANT-TUITION

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2006
$3.99 • Paperback, 8 x 8 inches • 24 pages

The Sunny Patch kids want to go to Ned and Ted’s Summer’s Never Ending Party instead of storing food for winter. Will Sunny Patch be prepared when the cold weather comes?

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David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2006
$6.99 • Paperback with flaps, 8 x 8 inches • 16 pages

Learn to count from 1 through 20 with the Sunny Patch Friends and these fun lift-the-flaps. With Miss Spider, learning your numbers is as easy as 1-2-3!

WE WORK IN SUNNY PATCH

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2006
$4.99 • Novelty Paperback, 8 ½ x 11 inches • 16 pages + 4 sticker pages

Come along and see how everybuggy in Sunny Patch contributes in his or her own unique way!

MISS SPIDER’S BUSY BUGGY DAY!

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2005
$7.99 • Oversized die-cut board book, 10 x 11 1/2 inches • 10 pages

Spend the day with Miss Spider as she works and plays all over Sunny Patch.

OH BOY, IT’S BOUNCE!

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2005
$7.99 • Oversized die-cut board book, 10 x 11 1/2 inches • 10 pages

Come along with Bounce as he boings and plays all over Sunny Patch.

SURF WITH SQUIRT!

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2005
$7.99 • Oversized die-cut board book, 10 x 11 1/2 inches • 10 pages

Follow Squirt as he surfs the web to the places he loves in Sunny Patch.

SPOTLIGHT ON SHIMMER!

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2005
$7.99 • Oversized die-cut board book, 10 x 11 1/2 inches • 10 pages

Watch Shimmer shine as she does her favorite things in Sunny Patch!

BUGS AWAY!

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2005
$4.99 • Wipe-off Coloring Book, 10 x 11 1/2 inches • 24 pages

There’s so much to do in Sunny Patch! Use water-based crayons or markers on the wipe-off pages to play with the Sunny Patch kids again and again!

SING IT, SISTER!

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2005
$3.99 • Paperback, 8 x 8 inches • 32 pages

The Dribbly Dell Singers need a new lead singer, and Pansy’s ready to show them what she’s got! But what happens when timid Snowdrop shines in the spotlight instead? Find out how the sisters learn to stick together.

HAPPY HEARTWOOD DAY

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2005
$3.99 • Paperback, 8 x 8 inches • 24 pages + card

It's Heartwood Day in Sunny Patch, and it's time to celebrate with a big party. Everybuggy is having a great time giving and receiving gifts, except for Dragon. Come along as Dragon learns to share in this sweet story that comes with a Valentine's Day card just for you!

SUPPERTIME IN SUNNY PATCH

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Fall 2005
$5.99 • Paperback, 13 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches • 32 pages

With four copies of eight different place mats to color, everyone will have fun eating with Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends!

MISS SPIDER’S FAMILY ALBUM

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Summer 2005
$7.99 • Tabbed Board Book, 9 x 8 inches • 16 pages

Miss Spider is looking through her favorite family memories—and she wants you to come along. A perfect introduction to the world of Miss Spider and her family, readers will delight in seeing each Sunny Patch character highlighted on child-friendly tabs.

A BUG-A-BOO DAY PLAY

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Summer 2005
$3.99 • Paperback, 8 x 8 inches • 24 pages + tattoos

It’s Bug-a-Boo Day, the spookiest day of the year, and Shimmer wants to put on a play—with her family’s help. But when her brothers and sisters bug out, Miss Spider and Holley must step in and save Shimmer’s Bug-a-Boo Hullabaloo. With rub-off tattoos!

ALL PUPA’ED OUT

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Summer 2005
$3.99 • Paperback, 8 x 8 inches • 32 pages

Squirt and Shimmer are so bug-eyed over Cookie, the cute li’l orphan caterpillar they found, that they decide to take care of her until she turns into a great big butterfly. But when Cookie starts munching everything in sight, they have to wonder if this little caterpillar is too much to handle!

FUN WITH BOUNCE

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Summer 2005
$4.99 • Coloring/Activity, 8 1/2 x 11 inches • 32 pages

Join bedbug Bounce on his adventures through Sunny Patch, where you’ll get to know all of his buggy brothers and sisters. This book is bursting with coloring fun and complete with four character-shaped crayons, activities, and even a cut-out bug mobile on the back cover.

THE SUNNY PATCH FRIENDS’ PICNIC

David Kirk, author and illustrator • Publication Date: Summer 2005
$4.99 • Paperback, 8 1/2 x 11 inches • 16 pages + 4 sticker pages

It’s picnic time and Bounce, Squirt, and the rest of the gang are all set for a day of fun in the sun. Join all of your favorite Sunny Patch friends as they munch on treats, dance in the meadow, and more! This book has over 75 full-color reusable stickers and amazing spreads rendered in 3-D CGI!