The Art Contest

by Steven Banks

Squidward finds out that the Bikini Bottom Art Society is having an art contest and offering the winner a membership in the fancy club. However, when he discovers that his archenemy, Squilliam Fancyson, is not only a member of the club but a judge at the contest, Squidward vows to win no matter what it takes -- even if it means tricking SpongeBob into cheating for him!

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

49 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 20, 2006

About the author

Steven Banks has numerous writing and acting credits. He has been a head writer for several Nickelodeon series including "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron", "The Fairly Odd Parents", "CatDog", and "Sponge Bob Square Pants". His play, "Love Tapes," co-written with Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller fame), was recently performed at the Sacred Fools Theater in Hollywood. And he created, wrote, produced, and starred as himself in "The Steven Banks Show," a comedy series which aired on PBS in the 90s.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this for fun on Libby. Me and my sister use to have a ton of these Spongebob books as kids. It was fun reading one of them again. It’s a cute story and I love the illustrations. They look like they came from the show.

[Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely not a literary classic, but at this point, my son is an addict. Authentic Spongebob story telling. Fun pictures. When in doubt, we add these to our bedtime routines.

[Puji Sibarani]

🎨🎨🖼🎨🎨ART CONTEST

[Amara Tanith · Rating 2 out of 5]

There's not really much to say about this one other than to point out that this tie-in picture book might have the Spongebob characters, but has a poorly explained moral instead of any typical Spongebob humor.

So how about a .gif summary instead?


Squidward's life sucks. He has a dead-end job, unbelievably obnoxious neighbors, and everyone in town seems to hate him.



But he fancies himself an unappreciated creative genius.



So he wants to join the Bikini Bottom Art Society. To join, he'll need to win their art contest. Too bad Squilliam's one of the judges.



Squidward's idea of genius art isn't exactly the same as Squilliam's.



But Spongebob can make masterpieces without any effort at all.



And he'd do anything for Squidward.



So Squidward uses one of Spongebob's paintings to win the contest.



And he pulls off the scam right up until Spongebob spills the beans.



Except, it turns out that everyone in the club cheated to get in, including Squilliam.



And since Spongebob is clearly the only one who deserves to be in the club, he disbands it to start a club they can all be in. A bubble-blowing club.



The End.

[Pinky · Rating 2 out of 5]

Squidward steals Spongebob's art for a contest.

[Momjosh12]

good

[Rosa Cline · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good SpongeBob book to help children learn that you can't get far by cheating... and it's never good to cheat. Always being true to yourself is best.

[Rebecca Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this purely for fun, and it didn’t disappoint!

[Gretchen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reveals the truth about all of the artists, but doesn't exactly explain why you shouldn't cheat...