1. “The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything” by Linda Williams and Megan Lloyd
young readers (2-5)

     This is the perfect picture book for Halloween, especially for children 3 and under. It’s about an
old lady who’s followed through the woods to her house by a ghostly pair of shoes, pants, shirt
and then a giant pumpkin head.

2. “Halloween Night” by Marjorie Dennis Murray & Brandon Dorman
young readers (2-5)

     A group of scary characters–zombies, witches, ogres, mummies, monsters and more–gather
in a haunted house the night before Halloween. The book follows the traditional “T’was the
night before Christmas,” but it starts "'Twas Halloween night, and all through the house/Every
creature was stirring, including the mouse." The images are exciting and it ends with a surprise.
 

3.  “Bone Soup”  by Cambria Evans

The book features Finnigan the ogre making soup with “spider eggs…dried mouse
droppings…toe nails” and lots of other yellow greenish grossness.
 

For the older ghouls and boys...

4. “Anna Dressed in Blood” by Kendare Blake

This book has the perfect balance of gore and romance about a young man, Cassio, a ghost
hunter, who encounters Anna, a murderous ghost.   She’s killing anyone who enters her haunted
Victorian mansion. Except she spares Cassio. Why? Full of secrets and curses and lots of
bloooood!

5. “The Diviners” by Libby Bray

This book came out last month. It’s a terrific supernatural mystery. Evie O'Neill, a libvely
likeable teenager, is running around New York in the 1920s “with glamorous Ziegfield girls and
rakish pickpockets.” But home life is far from glamorous. She lives with her Uncle Will, curator
of "The Museum of the Creepy Crawlies” (the Museum of American Folklore and Superstition).
Together they get involved and Evie discovers a supernatural secret about herself.

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