Booktacular Halloween Books for Children

Check out these Halloween books provided to you from Sussex County Library System. They are fun and fright-free books.

Updated October 6, 2025
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The Ghost Who Was Afraid of Everything
Ahmed, Nadia
Paper Book
If you're a fraidy-ghost, enjoying Halloween is hard! When Finn is afraid, his stomach swoops, his hands sweat, and he can't move. Finn, a spooky little ghostie, is too afraid to leave the comfort of his attic to enjoy trick-or-treating with his family. He's afraid of everything-...
Chicka Chicka Tricka Treat
Chung, Julien/ Chung, Julien (ILT)
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller! It's Halloween in this companion to the beloved and bestselling classic Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, and there's a spooky surprise in store for everyone's favorite letters! A told B, and B told C,
Ghosthunters and the totally moldy baroness!
Funke, Cornelia Caroline.
Paper Book
Strange and stinky things are happening at Gloomsburg Castle. To begin with, the creepy place is crawling with TIBIGs (Tiny Biting Ghosts, per the Indispensable Alphabetical Index). And now it appears that the murderous spirit of a 400-year-old, Totally Moldy Baroness has possessed the palace's...
Coraline
Gaiman, Neil.
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman's modern classic, Coraline--also an Academy Award-nominated film "Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house...." When Coraline steps through a door to find another...
Coraline
Gaiman, Neil.
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman's modern classic, Coraline--also an Academy Award-nominated film "Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house...." When Coraline steps through a door to find another...
Spooky, scary skeletons /
Gold, Andrew.
Paper Book
Spooky, scary skeletons...will send shivers down your spine in this adorable sing-along picture book based on the TikTok viral song by Andrew Gold (best known for writing The Golden Girls theme song, "Thank You for Being a Friend.") Follow along as five little skeletons go...
Bruce and the legend of Soggy Hollow /
Higgins, Ryan T.
Paper Book
Celebrate all things scary with #1 New York Times best-selling author Ryan T. Higgins's beloved Mother Bruce. Bruce is a bear who does not like holidays, and he really doesn't like Halloween. His family of mice and geese decides the only way to get Bruce excited...
Broom for Two
Maruno, Jennifer/ Ritchie, Scot (ILT)
Paper Book
Friendship and empathy charm as a little witch learns to fly on a not-so-perfect broom. While practicing for her flying test, Little Witch sometimes forgets her broom in places she shouldn't. By the time she finds her broom in the woods by Ramshackle Rat's house, the broom has been...
Night of the pumpkinheads
Rosen, Michael J.
Paper Book
A group of restless pumpkinheads are tired of spending every Halloween sitting on the porch while all the kids get to dress up and go trick-or-treating. This year, the pumpkins magnificently transform into fearsome Frankenstein, the Loch Ness monster, a woolly mammoth, and even a grand slime...
Ghouldilocks and the three ghosts /
Sullivan, Annie,
Paper Book
A classic fairy tale is turned on its head when a creepy ghoul and three not-so-scary ghosts replace familiar characters in this funny holiday story. Ghouldilocks and the Three Ghosts is the Halloween version of a well-known fairy tale. This Ghouldilocks has the same...
How to catch a witch /
Walstead, Alice
Paper Book
A New York Times and USA Today bestseller from the hit How to Catch series! Do YOU have what it takes to snatch a Halloween witch? It's Halloween night and something doesn't seem quite right... When the How to Catch Kids head out to trick-or-treat, there are ghosts, goblins, and ghouls...

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