Favorite Halloween Books for Kids

 FAVORITE HALLOWEEN BOOKS FOR KIDS

Halloween will soon be here, and it's time to use some fun Halloween themed books and activities in the classroom to engage students in literacy learning!

I have created a list of 12 favorite Halloween themed books and activities...and some are great even if you don't 'celebrate' Halloween in the classroom. In fact, many include great lessons on character and inclusiveness!

Poor Oscar gets teased by the other dogs about his silly Hallo-Wiener costume. Even though they don't deserve it, Oscar chooses to be kind and help the other dogs when a 'monster' scares them on Halloween. 

Find The Hallo-Wiener companion activities (here)

 Spookley looks different than the other pumpkins in the patch- he's square! He gets teased, yet chooses to help the others when they are in trouble. The pumpkins learn a lesson in celebrating differences!

 Find Spookley the Square Pumpkin companion activities (here)

No matter what The Little Old Lady hears and sees on her evening walk...she's not afraid of anything!

 Find The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything companion activities (here)

The Ugly Pumpkin is never picked for Halloween, because he looks so different from the other pumpkins. An 'ugly duckling' story featuring pumpkins/squash!

 Find The Ugly Pumpkin companion activities (here)

Jasper Rabbit LOVES to eat carrots, and helped himself...until the carrots came up with a creepy plan to keep him away!

 Find Creepy Carrots companion activities (here)

Little Boo wants very much to be scary, but needs to be patient until he grows up and becomes a jack-o-lantern!

 Find Little Boo companion activities (here)

A story about a witch riding her broom...and adding passengers as she goes!

 Find Room on the Broom companion activities (here)

Farmer Brown hates Halloween, but the farm animals find a way to get him to come to their Halloween party in the barn!

 Find Click, Clack, Boo! companion activities (here)

Junie B. Jones doesn't like Halloween...there are so many things to be afraid of! So she decides to wear a scary costume to keep the creepy things away!

 Find Junie B. Jones First Grader Boo...and I Mean It! companion activities (here)

A great book for religious schools that don't cover Halloween in the classroom. This book shows how Christians are like pumpkins...Jesus removes our 'yucky stuff' so our lights can shine! 

Find The Pumpkin Patch Parable companion activities (here)

Little Baby Mummy and Big Mama Mummy play a game of 'Hide and Shriek'. Your students will love the things he is, and is not, afraid of!

Find Where's My Mummy? companion activities (here)

The Fright Club is preparing for Halloween by getting ready for 'Operation Kiddie Scare'. Several guests show up at their clubhouse door, wanting to join the group. Are they scary enough?

Find Fright Club companion activities (here)

 The Fright Club is preparing for Halloween by getting ready for 'Operation Kiddie Scare'. Several guests show up at their clubhouse door, wanting to join the group. Are they scary enough?

Find Bone Soup companion activities (here)