For Kids
Scary (and not so scary) reads for Halloween!
Looking for a good scare or just trick-or-treating this Chicagoween? Get ready for All Hallow's Eve with these great books to read aloud together or to read on your own! For even more titles, check out the list under "Halloween" in the "Best Stories" section of the KidsCat.
And Then Comes Halloween
By Tom Brenner, illustrated by Holly Meade
Candlewick, 2009
Boo to You
By Lois Ehlert
Beach Lane, 2009
Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin
By Tad Hills
Schwartz & Wade, 2009
The Hungry Ghosts
By Julius Lester, illustrated by Geraldo Valerio
Dial, 2009
Minerva Louise on Halloween
By Janet Morgan Stoeke
Dutton, 2009
My First Halloween
By Tomie dePaola
Grosset & Dunlap, 2008
Over in the Hollow
By Rebecca Dickinson, illustrated by Stephen Britt
Chronicle, 2009
Pumpkin Day, Pumpkin Night
By Anne Rockwell, illustrated by Megan Halsey
Walker, 2009
There Was an Old Monster!
By Rebecca, Adrian and Ed Emberley
Orchard, 2009
All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story
By Mary Downing Hahn
Clarion, 2008
Araminta Spookie series
By Angie Sage
Katherine Tegen
Celebrate Halloween with Pumpkins, Costumes and Candy
By Deborah Heiligman
National Geographic, 2007
The Crossroads
By Chris Grabenstein
Random House, 2008
Dirk Bones and the Mystery of the Haunted House
By Doug Cushman
HarperCollins, 2009
A Good Night for Ghosts
By Mary Pope Osborne
Random House, 2009
Half-Minute Horrors
Edited By Susan Rich
HarperCollins, 2009
More Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World
By Arielle North Olson and Howard Schwartz, illustrated by E. M. Gist
Viking, 2008
The Seer of Shadows
By Avi
HarperCollins, 2008
Tales of Terror from the Black Ship
By Chris Priestly, illustrated by David Roberts
Bloomsbury, 2008