It’s almost Halloween and it is the perfect time for costumes, candy, and spooky stories. We love to find the magic of Halloween in books for kids!
Fun and fright free Halloween books are the best way for sharing.
Here are Halloween books for children who love gently scary stories about spooky witches, friendly ghosts, and monsters.
Your kids and students will love these Halloween books!
Pete the Cat: Trick or Pete by James Dean
Pete the Cat is one of the most beloved characters in children’s literature.
In this tale, Pete the Cat gets to go trick-or-treating with his friends and the many things he discovers along the way. It’s a lift-the-flap style book and each flap reveals things Pete sees while out trick-or-treating.
Peppa’s Halloween Party
Peppa and her family play outside in the leaves, carve pumpkins, and dress up in costumes for a Halloween party with all of their friends!
Spooky Pookie by Sandra Boynton
This board book tells the story of a little pig named Pookie who is trying to figure out what to be for Halloween. Pookie looks at the options in the special Halloween costume box, which has a clown costume, a pumpkin costumes, and many other choices.
Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
This is a good book for helping kids face their fear of monsters. Each page adds various facial features – eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, ears, and hair to make a scary monster. kids love the bright colors and interactive way that turning the die-cut pages makes the monster appear then disappear.
Monster Monster by Melanie Walsh
This is a fun lift-the-flap book that it’s filled with monster shadows and googly eyes against a bright one color background. When kids lift the flaps, they will find surprises what the shadows really are.
Four Silly Skeletons by Mark Sperring and Sue Hendra
The four skeletons love to be silly and they are too excited to sleep. They head out into the darkness, dancing away to the GREAT BIG DROP! They land at the bottom a tangled, jumbled mess of bones. Luckily, Auntie June is there to patch them up.
Dry Bones by Kate Edmunds
This book is great for singing along and the die-cut holes on every page help us to recognize and identify the different parts of the body and how they join up.
A Dark, Dark Tale by Ruth Brown
Children will follow the black cat’s travel through the dark wood, into the dark house, and to a mysterious wooden box in a dark and dusty cupboard.
Here are some FREE HALLOWEEN WORKSHEETS to make your kids and students fun for this holiday. These are all easy worksheets that can be used for all ages.
I hope your kids and students have some great Halloween activities. Happy Halloween!!
