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SpongeBob Squarepants
And the Winner Is . . . (Spongebob Squarepants
SpongeBob confronts the competition in this favorite story that has a fresh new cover, just in time for the Olympic Games. SpongeBob has more awards, trophies, and medals than he can count, so Patrick sets out to make himself a winner, too. But when Patrick starts to copy everything SpongeBob does, it cramps SpongeBob’s style. Will Patrick’s dream come between them? Or will he keep his eye on the prize and win an award after all? This popular SpongeBob SquarePants storybook about friendly competition is getting a new cover, just in time for the Summer 2012 Olympic Games.
- GenresChildrensPicture Books
24 pages, Paperback
First published January 6, 2004
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September 22, 2015
Ayden loved this book. Good read
June 29, 2022
This story is just a retelling of big pink loser, but with a different title probably because it didn’t want to scare parents off from buying the book by having loser in the title. Even though they use words like stupid in the book. Then again parents who don’t let their kids watch SpongeBob would never buy this book for them to begin with.
Overall it had all the iconic gags the episode did in the book.
Defeating the gigantic monkey man, and small monkey man.
This is Patrick
The only stuff they took out was the did you just blow in from stupid town? Joke obviously because there clearly trying to somewhat sensor words in this for kids.
And some of the Patrick copying SpongeBob gags were cut which in actually ok with I always thought the copying gag went on way too long in the Original episode.
Overall though it was pretty true to the episode but is just meh because it’s a remake of the episode. If your a huge SpongeBob fan though this is a must have book!
Overall it had all the iconic gags the episode did in the book.
Defeating the gigantic monkey man, and small monkey man.
This is Patrick
The only stuff they took out was the did you just blow in from stupid town? Joke obviously because there clearly trying to somewhat sensor words in this for kids.
And some of the Patrick copying SpongeBob gags were cut which in actually ok with I always thought the copying gag went on way too long in the Original episode.
Overall though it was pretty true to the episode but is just meh because it’s a remake of the episode. If your a huge SpongeBob fan though this is a must have book!
June 24, 2020
DescriptionSpongeBob SqaurePants has more awards than he can count, so Patrick sets out to make himself a winner. But when Patrick starts to copy everything SpongeBob does, it cramps SpongeBob's style. Will Patrick's dream come between them? Or will he keep his eye on the prize and win the award after all?
September 21, 2025
it's SpongeBob
January 17, 2013
And the Winner Is... by Jenny Miglis is a picture book adaptation of the Spongebob Squarepants episode,
Big Pink Loser
, which you may remember is the episode that introduced one of the especially memetic lines of the franchise ("NO, THIS IS PATRICK!").
...and this oft-referenced and hilarious line does not appear in the book. As a matter of fact, that entire scene is cut.
As far as I'm concerned, this deletion sums up the book's quality. Spongebob Squarepants became popular because of its absurd humor. And while it's lost much of its original humor over the years, shifting instead to gross-out humor that more easily holds the attention of its target audience, And the Winner Is... drops the humor entirely in favor of teaching children a moral.
I will admit I don't understand that. Kids like Spongebob because it's funny. Therefore, a child would agree to read a Spongebob book on the grounds that it, too, should amuse them. Yet this book rehashes an episode's plot, removing all the humor and leaving the moral behind. But if the humor is what held the child's attention so well, and the moral is present alongside the humor in the episode, why are the jokes gone? Why retell a story with its best bits removed?
In other words, I was disappointed by this. However, I've opted for two stars instead of one on the assumption that it can help parents teach their children to read by taking advantage of Spongebob's popularity.
...and this oft-referenced and hilarious line does not appear in the book. As a matter of fact, that entire scene is cut.
As far as I'm concerned, this deletion sums up the book's quality. Spongebob Squarepants became popular because of its absurd humor. And while it's lost much of its original humor over the years, shifting instead to gross-out humor that more easily holds the attention of its target audience, And the Winner Is... drops the humor entirely in favor of teaching children a moral.
I will admit I don't understand that. Kids like Spongebob because it's funny. Therefore, a child would agree to read a Spongebob book on the grounds that it, too, should amuse them. Yet this book rehashes an episode's plot, removing all the humor and leaving the moral behind. But if the humor is what held the child's attention so well, and the moral is present alongside the humor in the episode, why are the jokes gone? Why retell a story with its best bits removed?
In other words, I was disappointed by this. However, I've opted for two stars instead of one on the assumption that it can help parents teach their children to read by taking advantage of Spongebob's popularity.
February 2, 2016
The only reason this gets a 3 star instead of the 2 I was going to give it was because my special needs teen age son did enjoy it; he paid attention all through the story and giggled at times. I, myself, reading it to him didn't like it. It was too hyper to very similar to the television show. I don't like the fact that they think it's okay to fight and argue over who is better and who has the most trophies. If you are lucky to be good at something and have trophies and a friend doesn't then the child shouldn't 'rub it in' to others. Although Patrick did kind of give as much as he got. But in the end it did wrap up with SpongeBob ordering Patrick his very own trophy to make him feel better.
April 12, 2011
This is a great book to pick up and read to your students for fun. Most kids are familiar with Sponge Bob. You can read this to them and relate to the students helping them see you as a real person that they can talk to and have fun with at certain times. This book actually teaches the lesson to be yourself not others, take pride in yourself and never wish to be someone else. Most importantly it is funny and will make your kids relax and have a good laugh for the day.
June 5, 2019
Another great textualization of the classic episode. These can be hit or miss depending on how the episode is followed or whether or not it's an original story. This is a good one for a collection, it holds up well.
May 15, 2008
This other book was very funny Spongebob always wins a trofie.Patrick wanted to win a trofie to so he tried to steal a trofie from Spongebob.
June 16, 2012
Patrick wants to win an award; SpongeBob has more awards than he can count.
October 30, 2013
it is nice funny and intresting <3
January 20, 2016
What can one say about a book version of SpongeBob Squarepants. It wasn't that good.
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