9 Spooky Children's Halloween Books to Chill and Delight

The fall festival snuck up at the farm, and Ruby and her friends aren’t ready! Luna, Bones, and Fang are prepared to help, but they need you. 

Help them make cider by pressing on apples, tilting the book to rake the autumn leaves, and getting the pumpkin stand ready with the Boo Crew. 

Teach your little ones how to have punny holiday fun in a unique touch-and-feel experience. Halloween doesn’t have to be full of scary monsters. 

You can teach them to skele-brate and have a fang-tastic time. With sequins and fur, rhymes and illustrations, this book is too fa-boo-lous to pass up!

No matter how much candy your little ghoul collects trick-or-treating, the sweetest treat is the special moments you build around the holiday. 

This adorable book helps you introduce your toddler to the joys of fall, including Halloween! From the falling leaves to picking the perfect costume, this story teaches your little pumpkin the joy of spooky season.

Sometimes the best way to help your child learn to embrace spooky season is by showing them how monsters don’t have to be scary—they can be silly. 

Whether you read this as a short bedtime story or throughout the day, this book is filled with the funniest ghosts, vampires, witches, and monsters that kids of all ages will laugh and enjoy.

When a young ninja decides to confront the monster that's been scaring him night after night, he heads into the closet. The last thing he expected was that the monster wouldn't be scary and that they might actually become friends. 

With robots, lava pie, and loads and loads of traps, catching a monster isn't as easy as you might think. If your child has a monster living in their closet, this story can help them understand that sometimes things aren't as scary as we might believe.

On Halloween night, sometimes it’s hard to tell a trick from a treat. When the How to Catch Kids heads out to trick-or-treat, the streets are filled with goblins and ghouls. 

But these aren’t kids in costumes! A witch opened a magical portal, and now monsters are everywhere. The kids get to work setting traps to catch a witch before all the candy is gobbled up.

Crows have learned how to survive by relying on cooperation, community, and cuddling. We can learn a lot from the crows, and this beautiful picture book teaches kids not only how crows work together but also what we can learn from them. 

Discover how to solve problems by working together, talk out difficult problems, and ask for a hug when it’s needed most.

When the power goes out during a storm, two brothers are left in the dark with strange noises. They want to be brave, so they set out to discover what could be making the noise. 

But what they find is far from anything they expected. Can they overcome their fear and solve the mystery once and for all?

If you're looking for a spooky read for Halloween season for older kids, you can't go wrong with Finders Keepers. 

Twelve-year-old Maggie and her friends have been waiting for the mysterious scavenger hunt to begin. Ever since they saw the advertisement in the town paper, they’ve been dreaming of that gigantic cash prize. 

On the day of the hunt, it starts off super easy. But with each item, the difficulty—and the danger—grows. But when they’re asked to steal a human head from the cemetery, everyone is ready to quit. Unfortunately, it’s far too late for that.