Book
The Big Halloween Scare is a SpongeBob SquarePants Ready-to-Read book based on the episode "Scaredy Pants." It was written by Steven Banks and illustrated by Heather Martinez. The book was released on September 1, 2003 and is published in a joint effort by Simon Spotlight and Nickelodeon.
It has 32 pages and was reprinted on Kindle on January 27, 2011, and in paperback on August 7, 2012.
Synopsis[]
It is Halloween, and SpongeBob is determined to scare everyone this year. All he has to do is dress up like the Flying Dutchman, but SpongeBob does not realize just how scary he can look. Join the gang from Bikini Bottom in this spooky Halloween tale!
Trivia[]
- Squidward and Pearl's costumes were changed from the episode this book is based on. Pearl is dressed up as a witch instead of the Bride of Frankenstein. Squidward is dressed up as a clown instead of the Flying Dutchman.
- The Flying Dutchman's speech to SpongeBob is changed. Instead of just mentioning spiders and himself as scary things, he says, "No! Spiders are scary! Witches are scary! I am scary!"
- On the cover, SpongeBob's shoes are incorrectly colored black. The illustrator, Heather Martinez, had originally colored them brown to match the Dutch clogs he wears in the episode, but they were changed later on.[1]