But first, here is a finger play I like to do during October:
Five Little Pumpkins
Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate
The first one said " Oh my, it's getting late!"
The second one said "There are witches in the air".*
And the third one said " We don't care."
The fourth one said " Let's run, run, run."
And the fifth one said " It's Halloween fun"
Then Woooooo went the wind, and out went the lights.
And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.
* In case one feels the use of "witch" is going to be a problem, I have changed it to " There's a chill in the air".
Now for the books. First the picture books ( most of them can found in Halloween display):
Nicole's Top 10 Halloween Picture Books
- Mrs. McMurphy's Pumpkin-Rick Walton
- Goodnight Goon-Michael Rex
- Where the Wild Things Are-Maurice Sendak
- Mouse's Halloween-Alan Baker
- Beneath the Ghost Moon-Jane Yolen
- Arthur's Halloween Costume-Lillian Hoban
- When a Monster is Born-Sean Taylor
- On Halloween Night- Ferida Wolff
- Pumpkin Cat-Ann Turner
- The Library Ghost-Carole Weatherford
Now for chapter and other books for the school age reader of the mildly scary, my favorite reads are:
- Bunnicula series-James Howe
- Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich -Adam Rex
- Frankenstein Takes the Cake-Adam Rex
- Wait Til Helen Comes- Mary Downing Hahn
- Series of Unfortunate Events series- Lemony Snicket
- The Doll in the Garden-Mary Dowing Hahn
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series- Alvin Schwartz ( Note- The last section in each collection features funny ghost stories. I know the first one features a story called " The Viper".)
- Boy of a Thousand Faces- Brian Selznick
- Haunted Indiana- Mark Mariman
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow- Washington Irving
For more books, suggested keywords to use with "juvenile fiction":
- Halloween
- Ghosts
- Monsters
- Pumpkins
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