Spooky (and Not-So-Spooky) Picture BooksLike this list

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• At the Old Haunted House

  Ketteman, Helen,

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  Meet the creature-families who live together at the Old Haunted House! This book can be sung to the tune of 'Over in the Meadow' and is so much fun to count along with (especially if you do the voices for each new set of characters).

• There's a Ghost in This House

  Jeffers, Oliver,

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  A girl has heard there are ghosts in the house... but she can't see any around! Can you see them? Oliver Jeffers has really taken the picture book form to a new level with this one: the girl goes from room to room, all seemingly empty, but each page…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Go Away, Big Green Monster!

  Emberley, Ed

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  A classic for a reason! Such creative use of colors and cut-outs... Go Away, Big Green Monster gets more and more fun the more you read. After a couple read-alouds, your child will be yelling out "BUT YOU DON'T SCARE ME - SO GO AWAY!" along with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Mischief of Mice

  Matheson, Christie,

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  A group of mice has gone missing! The other forest critters fret over what happened to them, including some spooky ones like spiders and ravens. The text and pictures, while leaning more wintry than autumnal, lend the mystery an ominous, spooky…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zip! Zoom! On a Broom

  Sloat, Teri,

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  These 10 zany witches can't all stay on the broom at once! Another great counting-based one, with a funny slant, it rhymes and includes some great vocabulary like "incant"!

• Not Very Scary

  Brendler, Carol,

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  Melly is a monster, from a monster family both fearsome and fearless, and nothing scares Millie either... right? Join Melly on her way to her cousin's Halloween Party, as she encounters increasingly 'scary' creatures... who turn out to be guests at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mr. Pumpkin's Tea Party

  Barker, Erin (Erin Lorraine),

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  1...2... 3... 4 counting-based books on this list; this one has delightfully whimsical and not-too-spooky illustrations, counting off all the things at the tea party thrown by Mr. Pumpkin himself!

• Click, Clack, Boo!

  a Tricky Treat

  Cronin, Doreen

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  Doreen Cronin's beloved farmyard friends are ready to throw a Halloween party... but can they do it without waking up Farmer Brown?

• The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt

  Nason, Riel, 1969-

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  Ghosts are usually embodied by a long, spectral-white sheet... but not this one. Can a ghost still be scary if he's made out of a colorful quilt? Can he even be a ghost if he isn't scary? Little Ghost feels left out and lonely among his…Read moreRead more of this annotation