12 Halloween Picture Books for Children

Here are some of the Halloween picture books we read together as part of our Halloween preparations and celebrations this year.


Count Dracula by Victor G Ambrus


Darkness Slipped In by Ella Burfoot


Funnybones by Janet & Allan Ahlberg


Heggerty Haggerty and the Hallowe'en Ghosts by Elizabeth Lindsay with illustrations by Peter Rush


Monsters by Colin & Jacqui Hawkins


One Witch by Laura Leuck with illustrations by S. D. Schindler


Scruffy Scroggles and the monster party by Ann Rocard with illustrations by F. Ruyer
(The character Scruffy Scroggles created by Marino Degano)


The Berenstain Bears and The Spooky Old Tree by Stan and Jan Berenstain


Who's Afraid Of The Ghost Train by Frank Rodgers


Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson with illustrations by Axel Scheffler


A Scary Story Night by Rob Lewis


The Hairy Toe (A Traditional American Tale) with illustrations by Daniel Postgate



Sunnyboy was also curious to see a photograph of one of my Halloween costumes as a child. I'm on the right wearing the skeleton costume.



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