When lonely Miss Spider tries to host a tea party, the other bugs refuse to come for fear of being eaten!

Simple text for new readers tells about Miss Spider and her husband going shopping for a new car.

"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..."

Miss Spider worries that she is not a good mother when one of her recently hatched spiderlings goes off to find where an egg belongs.

While hurrying home to join their family for a Holly Day feast, Miss Spider and her sons become trapped in a snowstorm before meeting up with some helpful insect friends.

When little Wiggle is kept awake by scary noises, his mother, Miss Spider, takes him out for a walk to show him the harmless things that are making those sounds.

Instead of sharing the berries, Spiderus eats them all and learns a lesson of giving from the other bugs.