Children's titles for Halloween 2022
by Sophie Green
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The crayons trick or treat, by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers
The hilarious crayons from the #1 New York Times bestselling The Day the Crayons Quit are ready to celebrate Halloween! The crayons want to go trick-or-treating, but they're not sure what to say! In this humorous Halloween story, Purple Crayon teaches the rest of the box the magic words to say when they ring their neighbours' doorbells.
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Leila, the perfect witch, by Flavia Z. Drago
Leila Wayward is an extraordinary little witch who excels at everything she does. She's the fastest flier, the most cunning conjurer and the sneakiest shape-shifter. She is also the youngest in a long line of master bakers, so Leila's big dream is to win the most infamous culinary competition around: The Magnificent Witchy Cake-Off! But even with the most bewitching of recipes, Leila realizes a terrible truth: she's a disaster in the kitchen! Luckily, Leila has three magical sisters who are always there for her. Can they remind her to have some fun along the way?
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The pumpkin who was afraid of the dark, by Michelle Robinson and Mike Byrne
Boo the pumpkin does NOT like Halloween. And she does NOT like trick-or-treating. Why? Because she's afraid of the dark. So, when Halloween comes around Boo is especially worried. But when she meets a little boy who also shares his fears, Boo realises that perhaps Halloween - and the dark - aren't quite as scary as she thought.
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I'm not scary, by Raahat Kaduji
Bat just wants to make friends, but everyone is scared of him! When other animals see Bat's shadow at their window, they're terrified and think he's a monster. How can he show them that he just wants to share some cake?
Spookermarket, by Peter Bently and Steph Laberis
Welcome to the Spookermarket, where ghouls and frights shop by night. But when a mischievous genie escapes to cause chaos in the supermarket aisles, can everybody work together to outwit this troublesome customer?
Where's the pumpkin?: a spooky search and find
On the eve of Castle Gloombog's annual Halloween party, a spell goes horribly wrong and over a hundred pumpkins vanish! Join Harriet the Hairy (our spell-casting witch!), Tangle the Tiny (the biggest spider!), Liesel the Lumpy (our prideful gargoyle!) and the rest of the squad as they trade their dingy dungeons for the city sights of our world, travelling through space and time, in an effort to collect the pumpkins in time. Can you help the spooky squad find the pumpkins and save the party?
No place for monsters, by Kory Merrit
Nothing is out of place in the quiet suburban town of Cowslip Grove. But kids have been going missing - and only Levi and Kat notice. It's up to them to save the missing kids before a hidden evil swallows the town whole.
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Ghosts, by Terry Deary and Martin Brown
The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to spooks and spirits. From the ancient evils of Egypt, cutthroat Celtic sacrifices, Anne Boleyn and other restless royals, a deathly drummer boy trapped in the underground passages of Edinburgh, as well as ghost busters and spook rumblers, combined with tons of Horrible Halloween facts and top tips for getting rid of ghouls, it's all in this book.