
Welcome to the boo-tiful month of October my friends!
To inspire you and your little ones into the Halloween mood, I’ve curated a list of Halloween-themed books for ages 2 to 8! These selections are festive, without frights or scares that could upset a younger audience.
If you’re looking for a list of family friendly halloween children’s books for children under 5 years of age, I’ve created a list for that too! You can find that list here.
- At the Old Haunted House
- Big Pumpkin
- Bonaparte Falls Apart
- Creepy Carrots!
- Creepy Crayon!
- Creepy Pair of Underwear!
- Froggy’s Halloween
- Gilbert the Ghost
- Gustavo, The Shy Ghost
- Halloween is Coming!
- Happy Halloween, Little Critter
- How to Catch a Monster
- How To Catch a Witch
- How to Make Friends with a Ghost
- Leila, the Perfect Witch
- Luna Oscura
- No Such Thing
- Pete the Cat: Trick or Pete
- Pumpkin Jack
- Skeleton for Dinner
- Stumpkin
- Ten Timid Ghosts
- The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat
- The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
- The Good, The Bad and The Spooky
- The Halloween Tree
- The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin
- The Little Ghost Who Didn’t Like to Be Scary
- The Little Ghost Who Lost Her Boo!
- The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt
- The Little Kitten
- The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
- The (not-so-scary) Book of Monsters
- The Pink Ghost
- The Witch’s Cat and The Broomstick Blunder
- The Witch’s Cat and The Cooking Catastrophe
- The Witch’s Cat and the Trouble with Tidying Up
- The Ugly Pumpkin
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Ghost
- Trick or Treat, Little Critter
- Too Many Pumpkins
- Vlad, The Fabulous Vampire
If you have a favorite Halloween book for children ages 2 to 8 that you do not see here, please let me know! I would love to add it to this list!
