Get ready for fun with these Halloween books for kids. Read picture books on mummies, ghosts, and pumpkins as you head into our spookiest season!
Halloween has always been one of my family’s favorite holidays, especially with so many traditions every year, like:
- A candy scavenger hunt around the house
- Playing games like Halloween Mad Libs and word search
- Watching and listening to Halloween-themed movies and music
- Decorating our home with tombstones and cobwebs
- Picking out a pumpkin to decorate
- Wearing costumes to trick-or-treat
And of course, we read Halloween books for kids. They’re “spooky” enough to celebrate the cast of Halloween characters but not so over-the-top to feel scary for little ones.
Some of these books 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 Sandra Boynton. And others are standalone Halloween books that have become family favorites in our home.
Hopefully, these Halloween books for kids can get you set for the spookiest season of the year:
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Halloween books for kids
Spooky Pookie by Sandra Boynton
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz
At the Old Haunted House by Helen Ketteman
Splat the Cat: What Was That? by Rob Scotton
Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds
Skeleton for Dinner by Margery Cuyler
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda D. Williams
The Little Ghost Who Didn’t Like to Be Scary by Isla Wynter
Find Spot at the Halloween Party by Eric Hill
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
(Check out more children’s books by Julia Donaldson)
Little Blue Truck’s Halloween by Alice Schertle
Little Witch by Anna Elizabeth Bennett
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Steven Kroll
The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt by Riel Nason
Little Goblins Ten by Pamela Jane
Halloween Is Coming! by Cal Everett
The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky by Jory John
Bad Kitty Scaredy-Cat by Nick Bruel
Bonaparte Falls Apart by Margery Cuyler
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
Where’s My Mummy? by Carolyn Crimi
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
Pete the Cat Halloween by James Dean
Read these next:
- The Ultimate List of Pumpkin Books for Preschoolers
- Thanksgiving Children’s Books
- Rainy Day Activities for 1 Year Olds
- Children’s Books about Family
- 10 Favorite Children’s Books by Julia Donaldson
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