Halloween at HarperCollins Children’s Books!

Attention, lovers of the ghoulish and ghastly! Are you ready for the scariest season of them all?!
We’ve got monstrously good reading for children of all ages this Halloween, from sweetly spooky picture books to bone-chilling YA and everything in-between!

Check them out here or scroll down for book recommendations by age, creepy competitions, eerie extracts, activity sheets and more!

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Picture Books

Bing’s Halloween Party (Bing)

There’s a Ghost in this House

By Oliver Jeffers

Little Monsters

By Adam Stower, David Walliams

The Adventures of Paddington: First Halloween (Paddington TV)

Love Monster and the Scary Something

By Rachel Bright

What Was I Scared Of?

By Dr. Seuss

The Grotlyn

By Benji Davies

Five Little Pumpkins

By Ben Mantle

Younger Middle Grade

Lottie Luna and the Bloom Garden (Lottie Luna, Book 1)

By Vivian French, Nathan Reed

Lottie Luna and the Twilight Party (Lottie Luna, Book 2)

By Vivian French, Nathan Reed

Lottie Luna and the Fang Fairy (Lottie Luna, Book 3)

By Vivian French, Nathan Reed

Lottie Luna and the Giant Gargoyle (Lottie Luna, Book 4)

By Vivian French, Nathan Reed

Draw With Rob: Monster Madness

By Rob Biddulph

Older Middle Grade

Fireborn: Twelve and the Frozen Forest

By Aisling Fowler

Megamonster

By David Walliams, Tony Ross

Starfell: Willow Moss and the Vanished Kingdom (Starfell, Book 3)

By Dominique Valente, Sarah Warburton

Demon Dentist

By David Walliams, Tony Ross

Young Adult

Skulduggery Pleasant (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 1)

By Derek Landy

Dead or Alive (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 14)

By Derek Landy

The Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire (Skulduggery Pleasant)

By Derek Landy

Creepy Competitions

Appalling Activity Sheets

Eerie Extracts

Terrifying(ish) Trailers