Very young children will enjoy these Halloween board books with their sturdy pages and colorful illustrations. The simple stories in these children's books will not scare young children. For Halloween fun for little ones, I recommend these books. Several are lift-the-flap Halloween books.
1. My First Halloween
Penguin
2. Five Little Pumpkins
HarperCollins
3. Where Is Baby's Pumpkin?
Simon & Schuster
4. Trick or Treat?
Candlewick Press
Brightly colored childlike paintings cover the pages of Trick or Treat! by Melanie Walsh. There is a special "scary" flap on every page for little hands to lift. Popular Halloween symbols are illustrated, including: a pumpkin and (when the flap is lifted) a jack-o-lantern, a spider, children in costume, treats, ghosts and more. There's no real story, just appealing Halloween illustrations and, with the help of the flaps, Halloween transformations. Recommended for two- to four-year-olds. (Candlewick Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780763642952)
5. Mouse’s First Halloween
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With rhythm, rhyme, and repetition, Lauren Thompson tells the story of Mouse’s first Halloween. The emphasis is on all the scary sounds that Mouse hears, scary sounds that turn out to be “Not so scary after all” when Mouse finds out what is making them. Young children will enjoy repeating key phrases and trying to identify the sources of the scary sounds. Double-page paintings on canvas provide the appropriate atmosphere of mystery. (Little Simon, Simon & Schuster, 2000. ISBN: 0689855842)
6. Max’s Halloween
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Rosemary Wells’ beloved bunnies, Max and his older sister, Ruby, go trick or treating. Although Ruby insists on holding Max’s candy so he won’t eat so much he gets sick, Max contrives to continue to collect candy, with the help of sympathetic neighbors and relatives. (Viking, A Division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2004. ISBN: 0670058998)
