When the mayor of Mouseville announces a contest, Clayton and Desmond compete to win the prize for building the biggest snowman.

Madison is disappointed when her patriotic scrapbook does not win first prize in the class contest, but eventually she realizes that she learned a lot from her project and feels proud that she worked hard on it.

A class visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum inspires Stink Moody to create a variety of terrible smells to put on the sneakers he plans to enter in the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker contest.

Hoping to participate in the Critterville Kite Flying Contest, Little Critter busily attempts to fly a kite and finds the activity more challenging than anticipated.

Arthur's essay wins a contest and he has to read it to the President in a special ceremony at the White House.

"Creepella's father, Boris von Cacklefur, is a finalist in the Fright Night contest--Gloomeria's prestigious poetry competition. If he can perform the most terrifying rhymes, he will be crowned Fright Night Idol! But midway through the contest, Boris mysteriously disappears. Can Creepella and her friends find him before the final round?"--P. [4] of cover.

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

Five quirky little creatures vie to become Ethan's monster, charged with getting him into bed and keeping him there so that he falls asleep.

The Easter Bunny has a contest to decide who can help him paint Easter eggs.

"When a mustachioed rabbit spots a mustache contest, he's sure he has the competition beat. That is, until a pesky frog hops up with his own fine mustache. And a duck waddles up with a...duckstache? Soon, the competition is full of moosestaches and mousestaches, whalestaches and tailstaches--and every kind of 'stache in between."--