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Halloween is a great time for kids to dress up in costumes, go trick-or-treating, and eat lots of candy! It’s also a great time for them to read Halloween books! Here are some of our favorites:
1. “The Halloween Tree” by Ray Bradbury
2. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving
3. “The Witches” by Roald Dahl
4. “The Halloween Parade” by Harriet Ziefert
5. “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak
6. “The Nightmare Before Christmas” by Tim Burton
7. “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
8. “Goosebumps: Monster Blood” by R.L. Stine
9. “The House with a Clock in Its Walls” by John Bellairs
Beep Beep It’s Halloween Little Blue Truck is picking up his animal friends for a costume party. Lift the flaps in this large, sturdy board book to find out who’s dressed up in each costume Will Blue wear a costume too? With the delightful rhymes and signature illustration style that made Little Blue Truck a household name, Blue’s new adventure is full of festive costumes, fall colors, and plenty of Halloween fun.
Pookie gets dressed up for Halloween in this silly board book from bestselling author Sandra Boynton. What will little Pookie decide to be for Halloween this year? Pookie tries on costumes one by one, but somehow can’t find the right thing.
The resolution to Pookie’s dilemma will delight toddlers and their caregivers alike. Told with Sandra Boynton’s charm and pizzazz, Spooky Pookie is a Halloween classic. Boo! You can say, “Trick or Treat!”.
A haunted Halloween bus ride that will have children singing with excitement. THE SPOOKY WHEELS ON THE BUS is a humorous Halloween-themed version of the classic song THE WHEELS ON THE BUS. with a few ghoulish tricks and treats up its sleeves! Count from One Spooky Bus up to Ten Goofy Ghosts as this Halloween ride races through town picking up a few unsuspecting passengers along the way.
It’s Clifford’s favorite day of the year — Halloween! Out of all the holidays, Emily Elizabeth and Clifford like Halloween the most. They play games, trick-or-treat in the neighborhood, and tell ghost stories.
Best of all, they can wear costumes! Clown, witch, knight, or ghost — what will Clifford decide to dress up as this year? Featuring a full page of stickers!.
This rib-tickling collection of Halloween jokes will make kids scream with laughter! Featuring over 500 sidesplitting jokes and lots of hilarious black-and-white cartoons to round out the fun, this spooky joke book is the perfect Halloween treat for young comedians.
What do you call a pumpkin comedian? With pumpkin puns, mummy jokes and more, this jam-packed, 128-page humor collection will amuse kids for hours. Kids love jokes—reading them, learning them, and sharing them.
This joke book has age-appropriate, wholesome humor kids can enjoy and share with the whole family, whether at home or on the go. Plus, these jokes aren’t just fun, they encourage kids to read while helping them develop creative expression and social-emotional skills.
Introduce your brilliant baby to the ABCs with this illustrated primer about Halloween. Greg Paprocki’s popular retro-style series of sturdy board book alphabet primers expands to introduce brilliant babies and toddlers to one of the most popular holidays on the calendar: Halloween.
Just as other books in this series make learning history fun and engaging for children, this volume will fuel the anticipation of your child’s first Halloween and help to expand their vocabulary in the process.
B Is for Boo: A Halloween Alphabet features a collection of twenty-six illustrations featuring Halloween-themed concepts, including imaginative costumes, oodles of treats, pumpkins galore, masks and monsters, and haunted houses.
“‘Twas the night before Halloween, and all through the house, All the creatures were stirring, except for the mouse. The monsters had gathered to plan and prepare, For the trick-or-treaters who soon would be there?.
” Little monsters and goofy goblins take center stage in this silly, spooky spin on Clement C. Moore’s beloved poem. But what will happen on Halloween when the monsters come face to face with human trick-or-treaters in this fun-filled book by the author of The Night Before Easter?.
Trick or Treat, Biscuit! Lift the flaps to reveal spook-tacular surprises on Biscuit’s first Halloween adventure! Biscuit and the little girl are going trick-or-treating on his first Halloween. What kinds of silly surprises are in store for them? Pull back the flaps to find out!.
My two-year old granddaughter loves this book. She is a Biscuit fan, and loves the whole series. She couldn’t wait to sit down and “read” it to her little sister.
Happy Halloween Biscuit tells the story of a little girl and her puppy named Biscuit as they get ready for Halloween. Together they look for a pumpkin, try on Halloween costumes, and then go trick-or-treating.
The book is well constructed with sturdy pages and a nice glossy finish, each page has a fold out flap, so that children can have fun looking underneath to find out what Biscuit is doing, where he is hiding, and what he is helping with.
A very nice part of the Biscuit puppy book series for small children. reading level age 4-8 (20 pages).
A new addition to the Boynton on Board series, with over 21 million copies sold, Eek! is all treat and no tricks, a journey with Boynton and her nutty characters through the tradition of Halloween. It starts with an uh-oh—the chickens are nervous! Strange things are happening.
One chicken saw a pumpkin with flickering eyes, another spied a mouse of enormous size. They all saw a wizard and a witch, and a spooky robot. “WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? / Relax, silly chickens! It’s HALLOWEEN!” Oversized lap edition also available—perfect for reading aloud!.
The perfect treat for Halloween, this treasury of spooky stories is packed with thrilling adventures! With twelve scary stories, a padded cover, and fun illustrations on every page, this collection is a great gift for every bat and ghoul.
Plus, each of these spooktacular stories can be enjoyed in just five minutes, making it perfect for bedtime, story time, or anytime! Complete your 5-Minute Collections with these best-selling favorites! 5-Minute Disney Christmas Stories5-Minute Disney Halloween Stories5-Minute Girl Power Stories 5-Minute Disney Junior Stories5-Minute Disney Classic Stories5-Minute Disney Snuggle Stories5-Minute Disney Pixar Stories5-Minute Star Wars Stories5-Minute Disney Princess Stories5-Minute Disney Under the Water Stories5-Minute Winnie the Pooh Stories5-Minute Disney Sleepy Time Stories5-Minute Marvel StoriesAND MORE!.
Bought this for my 4 y/o and she loves it! it’s age appropriate and not scary. it talks more about halloween theme events instead of “spooky” stories. best part they’re 5mins each! works well with our busy schedule.
Halloween Tales is packed with spooky stories that get silly when readers get involved! Kids 6-9 will have a blast solving the Hidden Pictures puzzles, then placing the corresponding stickers in the blank spaces of the stories in whatever order they choose.
They’ll create unique silly stories from a multitude of possible combinations. This collection contains friendly witches, zany monsters, glowing jack o’ lanterns, tricks, treats and of course, stickers.
Over 250 colorful stickers pair with fill-in-the-blank stories that kids will complete for laugh-out-loud entertainment—the sillier the better! Fun to share with the whole family, Halloween Tales is filled with wholesome humor kids and grown-ups can enjoy together.
Sticker stories make a great Halloween activity. Placing stickers also improves hand-eye coordination and helps kids with concentration, focus and more. This 48-page book is great to take on the go to bring puzzling fun to little pumpkins anywhere.
Trick or treat! It’s Halloween night and all are preparing, for a wickedly wonderful evening of scaring. With zombies and banshees and mummies galore, read this book once and you’ll come back for more!.
Silly monsters, wacky witches and other not-too-spooky creatures fill the pages of this Halloween-themed Hidden Pictures collection. Puzzles and puffy stickers make an unbeatable combo for kids 3-6, and young puzzlers will love using the 50-plus puffy stickers to decorate each scene.
Plus, bonus activities like mazes and matching games add up to hours of Halloween fun. The perfect treat for Halloween, this 48-page book features bright, engaging picture puzzles with over 175 total hidden objects to find.
With the puffy stickers, kids can complete the scenes by adding costume pieces to animals, faces to pumpkins, and more. The stickers can be repositioned for endless spooky fun! Stickers also help little ones improve fine motor control through play, while searching for objects in Hidden Pictures scenes helps develop concentration and attention to detail.
Kids love the thrill of a challenge and working to achieve a goal. Hidden Pictures puzzles encourage independence and persistence while creating positive learning experiences.
My granddaughter is extremely happy with her new magazine which is a birthday present. It is wonderful to see the excitement on her face with all the material inside the magazine also it keep her very busy which reduces her from being bored.
My granddaughter loved it! It kept a 3 y Interview is at 11:00 today. r old’s short attention span engaged longer than I anticipated. She enjoys the colors & feel of it all which brings great joy to me.
Nickelodeon’s PAW Patrol has a Halloween adventure in this sturdy board book. Join Chase, Marshall, Skye, and the rest of Nickelodeon’s PAW Patrol for Halloween tricks and treats. This sturdy board book is perfect for girls and boys ages 0-3.
Get on the case with the PAW Patrol! Chase, Marshall, Rubble, Skye, and the rest of Nickelodeon’s puppy heroes are on a mission to save their friends and protect the community of Adventure Bay, using their paw-some vehicles, tools, and teamwork.
Join Mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as he decorates all the pumpkins in the patch in this sweet board book from Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond. Mouse is excited for fall because that means it is time to decorate pumpkins! But one is missing.
Where could it have gone? This is the perfect Halloween book for the very youngest reader, and is just the right book to get kids and budding artists inspired to work on their own Halloween crafts.
Go trick-or-treating with Larry in the hilarious Halloween companion of the USA Today bestseller Don’t Push the Button! A Halloween Treat is a must-have for any household! From the brilliant mind of author and illustrator, Bill Cotter comes one of the year’s best Halloween books for kids.
Everyone knows that trick-or-treating is the best part of Halloween. But that one house looks kind of scary. wait, why are you walking toward the creepy house?! Whatever you do, do NOT ring that doorbell! Kids have fun pushing the button, shaking the book, and scratching Larry’s tummy.
This is a winner for reading aloud to a group–Atlanta Parent, Don’t Push the Button!.
My 1. 5 year old and my 3 year old both LOVE this book. Correct, there are no actual buttons, but they love to pretend. Tells them to clap to turn on lights, cut a string and shout “boo”. They love following the directions to get to the next page.
This story is really funny and interactive. I’ve seen kids really enjoy it. However one kid was scared to death of it. It seems they were afraid of pushing the button when they’d been told not to before any of the funny things started to happen.
So maybe start soft until you can gauge your reader’s reaction. I expect her to be ready for it in a few months.
This book is so much fun for kids. This was my 2nd time purchasing it. It’s small size is perfect for small hands to shake, tip and push the button! I highly recommend this book as well as the 2nd version.
A new addition to the Boynton on Board series, with over 21 million copies sold, Eek! is all treat and no tricks, a journey with Boynton and her nutty characters through the tradition of Halloween. It starts with an uh-oh—the chickens are nervous! Strange things are happening.
One chicken saw a pumpkin with flickering eyes, another spied a mouse of enormous size. They all saw a wizard and a witch, and a spooky robot. “WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? / Relax, silly chickens! It’s HALLOWEEN!” Oversized lap edition also available—perfect for reading aloud!.
From the celebrated team behind Creepy Carrots!, Aaron Reynolds and Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown, comes a hilarious (and just a little creepy) story of a brave rabbit and a very weird pair of underwear.
Jasper Rabbit is NOT a little bunny anymore. He’s not afraid of the dark, and he’s definitely not afraid of something as silly as underwear. But when the lights go out, suddenly his new big rabbit underwear glows in the dark.
A ghoulish, greenish glow. If Jasper didn’t know any better he’d say his undies were a little, well, creepy. Jasper’s not scared obviously, he’s just done with creepy underwear. But after trying everything to get rid of them, they keep coming back!.
My 8 year old loved it but for some reason it scared my 4 year old. I bought this book because Creepy Carrots is such a big hit in my house, but this book to me just seemed kind of lacking. My son enjoys it so I guess that’s all that matters.
Celebrate Halloween with Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this gorgeous deluxe storybook retelling of the beloved Halloween special! It’s Halloween night, and the Peanuts gang is busy dressing up in costumes, trick-or-treating, and bobbing for apples.
Meanwhile, Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin to rise from the pumpkin patch and bring toys to all the children of the world. Come along with Linus and the rest of the gang in this beautiful deluxe storybook with a cloth cover, lush foil stamping, and incredible illustrations! It’s the perfect read for fans of Peanuts and the classic Halloween special.
This is the cutest Peanuts book, and it’s a really high quality hardcover as well! I’m thinking about getting another copy for my nephew to introduce him to the Great Pumpkin!
I bought this book for my great niece. I remember the show from when I was a child. It was a Halloween tradition to watch it. The book is well made and true to the original story.
Follow along a super tiny ghost’s spooky and fun journey to embracing who he is It was the night before Halloween and the super tiny ghost had one dream. He wanted to be wild and frightening with boos like thunder and eyes like lighting.
He had never looked like a big scary monster before, so he hoped he could terrify humans for just one night. Follow along the super tiny ghost’s journey as he discovers that scaring people may not be the ultimate goal.
Bring joy to others by simply being who you are during this trick or treat season Everywhere the super tiny ghost went, people would laugh or just ignore him. They didn’t think he was spooky at all, but the ghost was determined to be frightening on Halloween.
When the littlest ghost finally started to scare humans, he made a baby cry. The ghost felt so sad, so he took off his disguise. The super tiny ghost realizes that bringing joy is what matters most. Be inspired by ghost’s story to embrace his uniqueness and spread joy to those around him This kid’s Halloween book will teach young readers that it’s okay to embrace who you are instead of trying to be something that you’re not.
When the super tiny ghost fails to be scary, he feels like a failure and it makes him sad. He’s determined to appear spooky, but when he finally is, he realizes that it’s not what makes him unique at all and that he rather be kind.
Collect other books by Marilee Joy MayfieldMarilee Joy Mayfield has taught thousands of children inspiring lessons of love, friendship, and family with books like A Mother’s Love, Growing Up Sisters, A Friend Is Someone Who, The Snowman’s Song, Seasons of Life, The Lights In The Church, and The Book Fairy.
Halloween is a holiday that is enjoyed by many people around the world. For children, it is a time to dress up in costumes, go trick-or-treating, and to enjoy all the candy that they can get their hands on.
While Halloween may be a fun time for kids, it is also a time when many scary and horror-themed books are released.
If you are looking for a Halloween book for your child, there are many different genres to choose from. You can find books that are focused on the history of Halloween, books that teach kids how to make their own Halloween costumes, and even books that are simply filled with Halloween-themed stories.
No matter what your child is interested in, there is sure to be a Halloween book that they will enjoy.