Get ready for fun with these Halloween books for kids. Read books on mummies, ghosts and pumpkins as you head into our spookiest season!
Halloween looks a bit different this year.
With trick-or-treating officially off-limits, I’ve had to get creative with getting into the Halloween spirit leading up to the big day.
For instance, we had a candy scavenger hunt around the house and played games like Halloween Mad Libs and word search. We’ve watched Halloween-themed movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Hotel Transylvania. We decorated our lawn with tombstones and witches, and later this month, we’ll go to a pumpkin patch to carve and decorate our picks.
I also plan to do “socially-distant” trick-or-treating where we’ll still dress up in costumes and walk around the neighborhood. But instead of knocking on people’s doors, I’ll put a piece of candy in their bags for every decorated house they could find.
And of course, we read Halloween books for kids, and the kids can’t get enough of them. They’re “spooky” enough to celebrate the cast of Halloween characters but not so over-the-top to actually feel scary for the little ones.
Some are even Halloween adaptations of well-known characters like Pete the Cat and the Click, Clack, Moo farm animals. Others are books from familiar authors like Dav Pilkey and Kevin Henkes. And still others are standalone Halloween books that have become family favorites in our home.
Hopefully these Halloween books for kids will get you set for the spookiest season of the year:
Halloween books for kids
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The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky by Jory John and Pete Oswald
Bad Kitty Scaredy-Cat by Nick Bruel
Bonaparte Falls Apart by Margery Cuyler
Go to Sleep, Little Creep by David Quinn
Vlad the Rad by Brigette Barrager
Moldilocks and the Three Scares by Lynne Marie
It’s Halloween, I’m Turning Green by Dan Gutman
The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey
Sammy’s Spooktacular Halloween by Mike Petrik
Sir Simon: Super Scarer by Cale Atkinson
Does Frankenstein Get Hungry? by John Solimine
Where’s My Mummy? by Carolyn Crimi and John Manders
One, Two…Boo! by Kristen L. Depken
Ten Timid Ghosts by Jennifer O’Connell
Click, Clack, Boo!: A Tricky Treat by Doreen Cronin
By the Light of the Halloween Moon by Caroline Stutson and Kevin Hawkes
Creepy Pair of Underwear! by Aaron Reynolds
Pete the Cat Halloween by James Dean
Ollie’s Halloween by Olivier Dunrea
Miss Fiona’s Stupendous Pumpkin Pies by Mark Moulton
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