And we’re back with another Halloween list – the best Halloween picture books of 2024 to be exact! It’s been a while since we’ve published on article, but I couldn’t very well miss the most important list of the entire year!
Halloween is my favorite holiday, and scary books for kids are my favorite books – so this annual list of the 13 (get it?) best Halloween picture books is a meaningful tradition for us to keep alive. It’s a lot of fun to bring in every single Halloween and Halloween adjacent picture book we can get our hands on, and sort through them choosing our favorites, and now we’re ready to pass our findings on to you!
Literally being about Halloween – and by that I mean mentioning the holiday by name, talking about trick or treating, or getting the house decorated – is obviously worth bonus points to me, but it’s not exactly a prerequisite for this list. If it’s a book about ghosts or monsters or just generally a bit spooky or creepy, then it’s going to qualify. I basically follow a “I know it when I see it” rule for Halloween books.
The funny thing about this year is that we’re extremely light on picture books that are genuinely scary. I think that’s a shame, because I like being scared, and I liked being scared as a kid too. I often give bonus points for being genuinely spooky, and there wasn’t much of that going on this year, but that’s not to say we don’t have some great books this year. In fact there’s at least one in consideration for best picture books of the year, and it’s not very common for those books to come from our holiday lists!
I hope you enjoy looking through our favorite Halloween picture books of 2024, and I hope you and yours have a very spooktacular Halloween. It’s the best day of the year after all!
Disclosure: Some of the links in this article are affiliate links that will lead you to view the books on Bookshop.org. On Bookshop.org, your purchase can directly support a chosen independent bookstore like ours – with more than 30% of the sale passed along to stores.
