Our 10 Favourite Halloween Themed Children’s Books
Halloween is a fab time to add to your child’s book collection as you can snuggling up on an Autumn evening and enjoy reading them together over the October Half term School Holidays. So, we thought we would put together some of our Favourite Halloween Themed Children’s Books to give you some inspiration.
If you are looking for the perfect Halloween themed book for your child then we have put together a list of some of our favourites to give you some ideas of ones that will be enjoyed by your child all year round.
Our 10 Favourite Halloween Themed Children’s Books for Kids
Merry Fairy Halloween
This is a cute non scary picture book for young readers and tells the tale of how all the fairies celebrate Halloween, with their costumes, decorations and party in FairyLand
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Author Melissa Spencer
The Little Ghost Who Didn’t Like to Be Scary
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The Little Ghost Who Didn’t Like to Be Scary is a cute little picture book, ideal for younger readers and its all about Layla the little ghost who would rather play than scare people. This is a fab book to read with kids that are not keen on scary ghosts and all thing scary about Halloween.
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Author Isla Wynter
Funnybones
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Funnybones is an absolute classic, one that many parents will have enjoyed themselves as a child and now can once again by reading it to their own child. Repeating lines such as – On a dark dark hill, there was a dark dark town. In the dark dark town, there was a dark dark street……. Makes this a fab book for younger readers and the skeletons in the book are definitely not scary
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Author Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Room on the Broom
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All our kids have loved pretty much every Julia Donaldson book and this one is no exception. This story perfect for Halloween time flows and the rhyme is well paced making it really fun when reading it aloud.
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Author Julia Donaldson
Vampirina Ballerina
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We found this a funny little book to read as it tells the tale of the struggles a Vampire has to be a Ballerina from her having to find a class that meets at night or how to figure out how to perfect your form when you can’t see yourself in the mirror? It’s a great read for kids aged 3 to 6 years old
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Authors Anne Marie Pace and LeUyen Pham
Peppa’s Spooky Halloween
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This is new book released in 2020 is a must read for any Peppa Pig fan. It tells the tale of Peppa and George Halloween stay over at Grandpa and Granny Pig’s house. With all their spooky costumes, house decorations the house and spooky baking it a great read with your little one to get you in the mood for Halloween night at home with the family.
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Authors Peppa Pig
The Witch’s Cat and The Cooking Catastrophe
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This is a new book release in 2020 and is a fun one as it tells the tales of a witch’s cat who finds a dusty old spell book and accidently thinks that is a cook book and he then goes about making the witch some lunch and well what follows is some funny mishaps!
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Author Kirstie Watson
Monstacademy: The Halloween Parade
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This book storyline follows Trixie a girl who has just joined a new school which is full for Monsters and called Monstacademy and her struggles of fitting in.
She soon makes friends with a cursed werewolf and vegetarian vampire who help her out to make sure that the schools Halloween Parade goes ahead without any problems.
This is the perfect Halloween read for kids in upper primary years or even lower secondary years.
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Author Matt Beighton
Puzzled
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This is the first in a set of four books that make up an adventure series full of suspense, mystery, and fantasy that are perfect for kids aged 9-12 and teenagers.
This book is based around Peter and his junior high school friends who are pulled into an adventure where they have to solve challenging riddles and puzzles and what’s good is you as the reader are swept along as you too try and solve the puzzles.
Book two is called Really Puzzled, Book three is called Extremely Puzzled and Book 4 is called Incredibly Puzzled.
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Author P.J. Nichols
The Twisted Tree
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This is a creepy fantasy story perfect for teenagers. Its part ghost story and part mystery story. The Twisted tree is all about Martha who by just touching peoples clothes can see things about people, like their emotions or memories, which is a power that she got one day after falling from a tree when she was younger.
This creepy story is set in Norway and contains plenty of twists in the storyline so you never quite know what’s going to happen next and if loved you will be able to get the sequel to novel in January 2021.
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Author Rachel Burge