40 Spooky & Sweet Halloween Books for Kids
We're collecting your picks for the best Halloween books for kids of all ages! Add a recommendation or review below to let fellow parents know about the children's Halloween books your family loves to read each year.
Carving pumpkins, preparing delicious treats, watching Halloween movies, picking out costumes and reading spooky stories will bring your family together to enjoy the sweetest time of year.
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Room on the Broom
Age 2-5
Tracy Snyder Molina: A cute children's Halloween book about a witch and her cat giving rides on their broom to a bunch of animals who help them out.
Goosebumps Series
Age 7-10
Brittany Kozielski: These books can be a little scary and may not be appropriate for all younger readers, but they also have a lot of humor to them. The characters are always kids or teens trying to solve some creepy mystery, and since each of the books tells a different story, they can be read in any order. My 2nd grader loves all of these books!
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Age 4+
Beth Wood: A retelling of the favorite Halloween classic! Join Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang as they celebrate Halloween with costume parties, trick or treating and Linus waiting in the pumpkin patch each night for the appearance of his hero, The Great Pumpkin.
Pete the Cat: Trick or Pete
Age 2-6
Beth Wood: Pete the Cat is my son's favorite character! This Halloween picture book lets the reader turn a flap to find a surprise on nearly every page as Pete goes trick or treating.
Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Age 1-3
Beth Wood: Little Blue Truck is picking up his animal friends for a costume party in his Halloween book for kids!
Goodnight Goon
Age 1-4
Beth Wood: Goodnight Goon is a parody of one of the all-time best picture books. It follows Goodnight Moon's rhyming and cadence but throws in some Halloween twists as one little goon is tucked in for sleep!
Click, Clack, Boo!
Age 3-6
Sue Krawitz Tandoc: Farmer Brown and his farm animals are back in Click, Clack, Boo, the Halloween version of the award-winning Click, Clack, Moo. This cute tale includes sounds of the season such as creaking, crunching and tapping and colorful illustrations which will put any child in the Halloween spirit.
Five Little Pumpkins
Age 1-3
Brigitte Nohra Miller: This cute Halloween board book is very interactive with hand-play motions that you and your baby or toddler will enjoy reading together.
The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat
Age 2-5
Beth Wood: Brother and Sister Bear go trick-or-treating alone with their friends for the first time. The bears learn some valuable lessons on right and wrong while out on their adventurous Halloween night.
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat!
Age 3-6
Sue Krawitz Tandoc: This silly Halloween book is a twist on "The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," and the lady swallows a ghost, goblin, wizards and more.
Curious George Goes to a Costume Party
Age 4-7
Beth Wood: Join everyone's favorite monkey on his hilarious visit to a Halloween party. George manages to find a costume but get into a lot of mischief along the way!
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Age 2-6
Tracy Snyder Molina: A brave little old lady is walking home in the woods when she encounters a pair of shoes. She tells them she isn't afraid of them and continues on her way. This routine repeats itself several times with a pair of pants, shirt, gloves, hat and pumpkin head. Despite their best efforts, they aren't able to scare the little old lady and this makes them sad but she comes up with a plan that makes everyone happy in the end. Full of repetition and fun noises, this book is great to read out loud.
Biscuit Visits the Pumpkin Patch
Age 1-3
Beth Wood: Biscuit the puppy has an adventure to the local pumpkin patch! See what he finds on his visit in this sweet story.
Spookley the Square Pumpkin
Age 2-6
Beth Wood: This is one of my family's all-time favorite Halloween books for kids! Spookley the pumpkin gets made fun of because he looks a little different than all the other pumpkins in the patch. When he saves the day, Spookley becomes the hero of the pumpkin patch. This wonderful story by Joe Troiano teaches children the valuable lessons of kindness and not judging a book by its cover.
Big Pumpkin
Age 2-5
Tracy Snyder Molina: We discovered this Halloween book in preschool and my kids can still recite it by heart! A witch plants a pumpkin seed so she can make a pumpkin pie, but she needs help when it grows too big for her her to pull it from the vine.
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