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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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.

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Booook! :
Paper Book
Good to see you, pumpkin. Boooo, little ghost. Hoot, hoot, eerie owl. Making connections between images on a page and the real world is an important building block for your baby's communication skills-and this charming introduction to a lineup of not-scary Halloween characters, paired...
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,
I'll Love You Till the Bats Say Boo
Cristaldi, Kathryn/ Litten, Kristyna (ILT)
Paper Book
From the team behind the bestselling I'll Love You Till series comes a sturdy board book just right for little hands and their first Halloween--a must-have for fans of the series. And after trick-or-treating's done, I'll love you past the setting sun, up to the moon so high above, as...
Grumpkin
Edwards, Nicola/ Roberts, Sian (ILT)
Paper Book
Grumpkin the grumpy pumpkin is determined to get out of the pumpkin patch and leave the annoying season of fall behind in this humorous board book for children ages 3-6. Grumpkin is a grumpy pumpkin who dislikes fall and Halloween. All those costumes and candy-obsessed kids...but...
Ghosthunters and the totally moldy baroness!
Funke, Cornelia
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
This edition of New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman's modern classic, Coraline--also an Academy Award-nominated film--is enriched with a foreword from the author, a reader's guide, and more. "Coraline discovered the door a little while...
Coraline
Gaiman, Neil.
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New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman spins a tale of wonder, dark secrets, and bravery that inspired the new 3-D stop-motion animated picture When coraline explores her new home, she finds a door. through the door is another house just like her own...except that it's...
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...
How to Draw Cute Spooky Stuff
Nguyen, Angela
Paper Book
This kids' how-to art book lets the inquisitive child experience a cute spooky world through drawing. Each spread--drawn in Angela's trademark playful style--offers a step-by-step guide to drawing adorable witches, vampires, bats, ghosts, monsters, and so much more!
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...
The Not-so-wicked Witch
Stevens, Bethan
Paper Book
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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