12 Kids Halloween Books That Aren’t Too Scary

Ease into the spooky season and share all the ways it makes October special with your little one. Cat shares fall's fun surprises with baby, like pumpkins, tricks, and treats! 

Pick this up to read to your toddler today. It’s a fun read for them, easy for parents, and will help bring the family together for Halloween. 

In My Baby Loves Halloween, readers see Baby discover everything she loves about the season. The sweetest pictures take us along as Fall gives her every reason to be happy. 

Baby loves everything about this time of year. Oh, and candy. She definitely loves candy! 

Ollie tries to help a little kitten find its way home and ends up separated from her cat, Pumpkin. Troubles are certainly brewing. 

This is a sweet book with little hints of Halloween. It won’t be too overwhelming for young ones, but it has some fun, spooky treats for all readers.

Kids will love flipping through this bright, colorful book and spotting all the different costumes. More silly than spooky, Sabrina Moyle has brought a fun Halloween world to the page. 

Read and discover all the magic this holiday has to offer in Halloween is a Treat. 

This chapter book about the infamous Berenstain Bears family is a lot of sweet and just a little spooky. Brother and Sister decide to host a Halloween Festival to help Farmer Ben save the farm. 

The only problem? Farmer Ben’s dead relatives decide to join in on the fun! The ghosts will either make or break the event—and poor Farmer Ben. Either way, there will be tricks and treats for all!

We follow a group of boys as they head out for a night of trick-or-treating on Halloween. Instead of all the candy in the world, they find themselves on an adventure of a lifetime. 

Hoping to save their friend, they follow Mr. Moundshroud through Halloween’s traditions, from Ancient Egypt to Druid rituals. Their guide hopes to remind them of traditions lost to time and leads them to choose how to save their friend Pip once and for all. 

From the Files of Madison Finn series is Caught in the Web, following Madison as she prepares for Halloween. She has no costume, though. She’s also worried about dancing at the Halloween Dance. 

How will she get it together in time? Madison wants the perfect costume to show up her enemy, Poison Ivy. This is the perfect book for teen girls who love Halloween, a little drama, and a whole lot of fun.

Goff wants to escape his hometown. No, he needs to escape. This leads him to experiment with magic in the cemetery. Not the best idea, he realizes a little too late, after he transforms into a wizard! 

Now he has to use magic and try to defeat an all-powerful enemy. Why do the bad guys always want to destroy things? Goff was supposed to escape Spraksville, not save it! 

He’s in this mess now, and he’ll have to move fast if he wants to pull it off before Halloween.

Follow Hank and his ornerie bandapat (aka imaginary friend) as they head into Halloween. Hank is not a fan of the holiday, but Inkling the bandapat just learned about it and is obsessed. 

Squash just so happens to be Inkling’s favorite food. With a sneaky sister and no costume, Hank isn’t sure about this Halloween thing. Maybe Inkling can change his mind if he’s not too busy eating all the pumpkins.

Notorious scary story writer R.L. Stine invites young adults to Fear Street. Students receive an ominous invitation to an all-night Halloween bash at a creepy house. That’s the perfect recipe for a killer party. 

When a short blackout leads to a boy literally getting stabbed in the back, the kids must face their fears. Everyone just wants to make it out alive, but not everyone is cut out for Halloween scares. 

Fans of The Nightmare Before Christmas can rejoice with the release of this series by Shea Ernshaw. In the first book, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen, readers return to Halloween Town. 

The story follows as Sally is trying to figure out how she fits as the Pumpkin Queen. What she didn’t expect was that she'd have to do it all while trying to save the day! This Halloween-filled world is calling for anyone looking for spooky vibes this October.

In Horror Hotel, we follow a group of popular teenage paranormal investigators on YouTube as they visit a haunted hotel. The story is told from the perspective of the four ghost hunters. 

This ghost-hunting trip ends up giving them more than they bargained for, however. Somehow, they end up in the middle of an actual mystery while trying to find ghosts of the past. With ghosts and murder afoot, this book has just enough scares for Halloween.