Fueled by candy, children’s imagination runs wild at Halloween as they transform themselves into superheroes, animals, monsters, pirates, villains, and fairy tale characters. Feed your children’s imagination with some ghoulishly great books that they’ll enjoy long after they’ve eaten their fill of fun-size Snickers and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. You won’t need to trick your children into reading these lively tales of ghosts, witches, vampires, monsters, witches and more.
Vunce Upon a Time is a charming and beautifully-illustrated Halloween story that might even help banish your child’s fear of the monster who lives under the bed. Dagmar, the vegetarian vampire, loves candy but is scared of kids. He’s a bit of an outcast. While other vampires fly out to hunt, Dagmar tends his vegetable patch by moonlight. But when Dagmar’s candy stash is down to one stale gummy worm, he ventures out into the human world to trick-or-treat and makes an unlikely friend. This book by the authors of “Olive The Other Reindeer” is bound to become a Halloween classic. Your children will love the detailed pictures, and you’ll love the endearing message about overcoming your fears and making new friends.
Five Pesky Pumpkins: A Counting Book with Flaps and Pop-Ups!
My baby is obsessed with playing peekaboo, so he loves this book. I open the flaps for him to reveal five pesky pumpkins that disappear and pop-up on every page. As baby gets older, he’ll be able to open the flaps himself and practice counting down from five.
Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody
is a must-read for any fans of the children’s classic Goodnight Moon. Children who know Goodnight Moon by heart will love this new twist on their favorite rhymes– “Goodnight tomb. Goodnight goon. Goodnight Martians taking over the moon” – as well as the spooky (but not scary) pictures. You’ll want to read this tale about the little werewolf settling down to bed in the cold gray tomb with the black lagoon over and over again.
Boo, Bunny!
: Baby laughs when I “eeek” and “squeak” and make bunny sounds while reading this endearing tale of two shy bunnies who, after meeting accidentally, have a wonderfully fun time on Halloween night. Whether you read this for the pictures of fuzzy bunnies in Halloween costumes or for its empowering message, you’ll enjoy this child-friendly tale.
Mucumber McGee and the Lunch Lady’s Liver
: Fans of Edward Gorey will enjoy the dark, moody illustrations and this tale of poor Mucumber McGee who upon arriving late to lunch finds the only thing left to eat is liver cake. The rhymes are sometimes awkward, but your picky eater might get a kick out of this book.
Frankenstein Takes the Cake
: Silly rhymes and imaginative illustrations about the lives of monsters like Frankenstein, the Headless Horseman, Dracula and even author Edgar Allen Poe will have you marveling at the wit of this sequel to the bestselling book “Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich.” These short stories about Frankenstein’s nuptials and wedding reception are a novel way to introduce your children to poetry. Adults will enjoy the random pop culture references.
On A Scary Scary Night (Can You See What I See?)
This picture puzzle book by the co-creator of “I Spy” will keep your little one occupied searching for hidden objects in the spooky pictures. Just a word of warning: finding the hidden objects isn’t always easy and there’s no answer key. One mom I know spent 15 minutes searching for a hidden skeleton hand.
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Vunce Upon a Time is a charming and beautifully-illustrated Halloween story that might even help banish your child’s fear of the monster who lives under the bed. Dagmar, the vegetarian vampire, loves candy but is scared of kids. He’s a bit of an outcast. While other vampires fly out to hunt, Dagmar tends his vegetable patch by moonlight. But when Dagmar’s candy stash is down to one stale gummy worm, he ventures out into the human world to trick-or-treat and makes an unlikely friend. This book by the authors of “Olive The Other Reindeer” is bound to become a Halloween classic. Your children will love the detailed pictures, and you’ll love the endearing message about overcoming your fears and making new friends. 
Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody
Mucumber McGee and the Lunch Lady’s Liver
Trick or Treating with my kids!
I’d love this for my daughter.
We always have a big Halloween themed dinner before we go out trick or treating. So much fun.
my mom’s bday is on halloween so eating cake and celebrating with grandma. of course, trick or treating too.
We go for a ride on a boon ie back road and tell scarey stories
I love food, so my favorite of the chronicle suggested activities is caramel apples! But my very favorite is picking out a pumpkin.
Eating candy! Duh! :) Just kidding.. I actually love it all. Especially picking out my kids costumes and getting them dressed up!
What beats trick and treating with the kids? I love esp when they are little hearing them say “twick or tweet” lol Thanks for the chance to win such a great prize!
I’d love to enter this giveaway. Can never have too many books for my girls. ;)
Thanks for the great activity links. I liked the coloring sheets the best.
RebekahC
littleminx at cox dot net
LMBO at goodnight goon!! I like the recipe for the caramel apples and roasted pumpkin seeds!!!!!!!
going to the apple orchids
Pumpkin carving
My favorite Halloween activity is carving pumkins, I am quite good at it and it always makes people stop by for a closer look.
every halloween we look forward to the church carnivals. they are safe and so much fun for everyone.
Oh…. We have always loved J. Otto Seibold’s Olive books. The writing and illustrations are just unparalleled!
His books not only are whimsically illustrated and written but they have sublime messages that even a four or five yr old can understand.
Needless to say, I would love to win this holiday book from one of our favorites!
and oops. I ‘m sorry, I was so excited that I forgot to mention our favorite Halloween activity; that would be making candy apples!
love pumpkin carving
going to my sister house. Which we have done for over 10 years. Have a party and watch 10 pluss kids go trick or treating
We love to dress up,go to our church for our Harvest Party and then come back home and go around our neighborhood to get LOTS & LOTS of candy.
The Spiderweb Pumpkin Ginger Cupcakes sound delicious!! i can’t wait to bake some. And those little creatures on the website are adorable. :) Our favorite Halloween tradition is going to the pumpkin patch and picking out the perfect one. Then we carve out the insides to make pumpkin pie and roasted pumpkin seeds. And of course we carve the pumpkin into some sort of monster.
The Spider Web Pumpkin Ginger Cupcakes sound great and look awesome
gkstratos@yahoo.com
Eating mini candy bars!
My favorite thing to do, is to carve pumpkins with my kids. We laugh and joke alot about the pumpkins. :)
the office party
My favorite thing is putting together costumes for little ones; my girls are old enough now that I just get to suggest and advise and help a little.
Too Cute! I love the book and the coordinating activities. The templates for the face painting and Jack-O-Lantern are perfect for a mom like me who isn’t artistically inclined! My sons love to color and the Spider Web Pumpkin Ginger Cupcakes
sound delicious. Thanks for the fun information. Please enter me in your delightful book drawing. Many thanks, Cindi
I love the coloring sheets-my daughter loves coloring!
I thought the Vampire Jack-o-lantern was really great. Thank you!
My favorite thing to do is throw Halloween themed birthday parties for my two October babies. We bob for apples, face paint and play pin the tail on black cat!
My favorite Halloween activity is making carmel apples…YUMMY!! and now it’s going to be bringing my son Trick-or-Treating since this will be his first year doing this. I can’t wait!! He’s a little red head and he’s going to be Howdy Doody…too cute..
The Spider Web Pumpkin Ginger Cupcakes are inspiring me to do what I love best when the weather turns cool… bake! I love making pumpkin bread and these cupcakes sound delicious!
I’d like to read this book to my kids. I love to take my kids trick-or-treating and I also like to go to the area manmade haunted houses.
Looks like fun books to read!! :)
Our fave activity would be eating candy!! :))
If you mean favourite activity from that page – I love the sticker and colouring books. If you mean in general – favourite Halloween activity – I think it will be trick or treating – my son is almost two – when do kids generally start?
Decorating with our boys and visiting other houses in the neighborhood to pick our most favorite decorations.
I like decorating the house for Halloween. I’m not real crazy about having to take the decorations down, though.
We live in the only neighborhood that has side walks in three small towns. We give out over a 1000 pieces of candy every year. My kids would rather stay home and give out candy than to go trick or treating.
Getting all dressed up and trick or treating is our favorite, But we also like the decorating and scaring people too.
My favorite thing to do on Halloween is give out candy and see the fun costumes of the children. I also would like to try the recipe for the Spiderweb cupcakes!
giving out the candy.
The face painting looks like a lot of fun!
handing out candy to the little ones
We enjoy doing the pumpkin carving and also going trick or treating.
i like passing out candy.
Thank you for having this! My favorite part is watching my kids get really excited and gettind dressed up and trick or treating with them. Thank you!
tatertot374@sbcglobal.net
The activities on the website are cute. Our Halloween activity tradition is a Halloween party with cupcakes, 7-layer-dip, various spooky snacks, and Halloween-themed games and crafts.
The coloring sheets were my daughter’s fave activity
jceko77@yahoo.com
The Caremal Apple recipe was my favorite because my child and my favorite are caramel apples. They are sooo good.
Pumpkin carving was the biggie event.
I like to make (or bake actually) the Spiderweb Pumpkin Ginger Cupcakes Recipe activity. Great giveaway, thanks!
pumpkin carving of course, and roasted pumpkin seeds.
This will be my baby’s first halloween. I am so ridiculously excited about taking her to the pumpkin patch. As far as the ideas on the site go, I like the making bat wings the best.
hay rides
My son really enjoyed the coloring pages. Thanks for the link. We love to go on the haunted hay rides.
Trick or treating!
I think my daughter would enjoy the coloring sheets the most! We like carving pumpkins a lot!
mommyhoodistahnkless{AT}gmail.com
I would love to win this!
I enjoy the excitement of the kids as they get dressed up in their costumes to go trick or treating
I love passing out treats to the trick-or-treaters; it makes them so happy! Carving pumpkins is a close second.
I love going out Trick or Treating with my daughters. There’s nothing better than seeing my 6 year old daughter going up to all of the houses in her cute little costume, and now this year there’s a new addition to the family in my newborn daughter, so it will be twice as fun! Thanks so much for the great giveaway!
furygirl3132[at]comcast[dot]net
Trick or treating is the best day of the year!!! I didn’t realize how much I missed it between the time I went and now that my son goes!!! Thanks, justicecw@hotmail.com
we love to sit on the porch an watch all the little ones run around the street,too cute
Playing scary music
Our tradition is walking the neighborhood with a wagon as we trick-or-treat.
I’d love to make the Pumpkin Ginger Cupcakes with my son…YUM!!
Trick or treating with my grandchild.
I love dressing up my kids
It is fun just to see how cute all the kids are.
dressing-up in costumes
I would love to read these to my son.
I enjoy taking my kids out trick or treating each year
Gathering all the extended family together and eating and trick or treating together.
I think we may try the Vampire Jack-o-Lantern this year!
Seeing the little ones trick or treating for their first time. They don’t know what to say or do and it’s really cute!
My favorite Halloween activity this year will be taking my son tricking or treating for the first time.
Our favorite Halloween activity is growing our own pumpkins and decorating them (we don’t carve them, we draw on them or paint them, or glue sequins on them!)
Thanks for the giveaway!!!
I really love seeing all of the kids in costume during Halloween!
I love photographing the kids in their costumes. They’re mostly from on the street so I burn the photos to disks and give them to the parents.
the costumes
Going to the pumpkin patch!
Carving pumpkins and roasting the pumpkin seeds afterwards! Yummy!
I like going to Halloween parties and taking my kids trick or treating so I can sample their loot!!
We will be going to the pumpkin patch soon so the vampire Jack-O-Lantern pattern is great. Thank you for the great giveaway!
Seeing all the different costumes!
I love decorating for Halloween – that site has some great ideas! Thanks for the chance!
I think my son would really enjoy the Spiderweb Pumpkin Ginger Cupcakes Recipe
I enjoy dressing up in costume.
costuming
I like the Turn into a Vampire in 6 Easy Steps activity!
turn into a vampire in 6 ez stepss
Road Rally!
Trick or Treating and decorating!
i love to give out candy
Making Carmel Apples!!! Yum!!
Handing out candy is my favorite.
watching the kids parading around in their costumes
Eating the kids’ candy is my favorite thing!
Seeing all the kids in their cute costumes!
I like handing out the candy to all the little ones.
really and truly my favorite? Eating the left over candy. for some reason we always buy too much of my favorite candy to give away. i wonder why that is
I just love going on a haunted hayride!
watching scary movies :)
Trick or Treating is my favorite activity.
We love decorating the outside of the house for Halloween!
Watching all my kids favorite Halloween movies and camping out in the living room! Thanks for the contest!
My favorite Halloween activity is actually handing out candy to the trick-or-treaters. I love to see the kids in their cute costumes and watch their eyes light up when I give them a goody bag.
My favorite is trick or treating with the kids. I like to comment on the other kids costumes too and have a fun time. We real Haloween books year round here, the kids just love it. kristie2 (at) comcast.net
Dressing up on Holloween is still fun. A witch passes out candy at our house. This year it might be a vampire slayer.
Our favorite activity is trick or treating but a close second is making a Boo cake :-)
PLEASE COUNT ME IN ON THIS AWESOME GIVEAWAY :)
Count me in please :)
Trick or Treating.
I love Chronicle Books–they have the best selection for artsy people like me and their book support is fun too. The Spiderweb Pumpkin Ginger Cupcakes Recipe looks great.
My kids would go crazy for this!
We would totally do the cupcakes. Fun!
the kids would love this! they love to dress up for halloween!
love to see the grandkids dressed up!
ooh boy halloween is my fav holiday the best part is going to the pumpkin patch wego all night and have a blast we go every year but we also love trick or treating of course
We go to a party at church on Halloween.
I love costume parties!
I have 6 of my 8 grandchildren over for a Halloween party. 2 live out of state, I like to decorate and it is a tradition that I make a pumpkin cake and witches brew for after trick and treating. I love that my children and grandchildren still come to visit. I care for my 2 granddaughters 4 and 5 daily , I would love to read them this book
thank you
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