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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Linda Williams · 32 pages
Popcorn
Frank Asch · 40 pages
Sam’s Halloween party is popping—with a massive amount of popcorn! Find out how he and his friends handle the delicious surplus in this reissue of a classic picture book from celebrated and award-winning author and illustrator Frank Asch.
The Nightmare before Christmas
Tim Burton · 52 pages
Previously
Allan Ahlberg · 32 pages
The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other. Includes Goldilocks, Jack and the beanstalk, Jack and Jill, the frog prince, Cinderella, and the gingerbread man.
Los Gatos Black on Halloween
Marisa Montes · 32 pages
Easy to read, rhyming text about Halloween night incorporates Spanish words, from las brujas riding their broomsticks to los monstruos whose monstrous ball is interrupted by a true horror.
Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella
Susan Lowell · 40 pages
Cindy Ellen loses one of her diamond spurs at the square dance in this wild western retelling of the classic Cinderella story.
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
Steven Kroll · 32 pages
Two mice, each without the other's knowledge, help a pumpkin grow into "the biggest pumpkin ever"--but for different purposes.
Tam Lin
Jane Yolen · 32 pages
In this retelling of an old Scottish ballad, a Scottish lass, on the Halloween after her sixteenth birthday, reclaims her family home which has been held for years by the fairies, and at the same time effects the release of Tam Lin, a human held captive by the Queen of the Fey.
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 32 pages
Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella
Tony Johnston, James Warhola · 32 pages
This version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the "man" of her dreams is set in the old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters.
No Bears
Meg McKinlay
Ruby is in charge of this book. And she'll tell you something right now. There are NO BEARS in it. Not even one. Ella wants to tell you a story - a story with absolutely no bears. You don't need bears for a book. You need pretty things like fairies and princesses and castles and maybe funny things and exciting things. In Ella's kind of story, there are no bears in the village or the castle or the
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
Eugene Trivizas, Helen Oxenbury, Eugenios Tribizas · 32 pages
A beautiful pop-up edition of the bestselling, award-winning picture book, it is complete with blown-down houses, blown-up explosions, and a fabulous dancing pig.
The Magic School Bus Going Batty: A Book About Bats
Joanna Cole, Nancy E. Krulik · 32 pages
When the Magic School Bus turns into a bat, the gang gets the inside story on this eerie yet fascinating creature of the night.
Thumbelina
Hans Christian Andersen · 32 pages
Thumbelina is one of the most charming and childlike tales of the great Danish story-teller, Hans Christian Andersen. It is presented in a brief retelling, with pictures by Gustaf Tenggren, the Swedish-American artist whose pictures are loved by children everywhere.
Cinderella
Walt Disney Company
With the help of her fairy godmother, a kitchen maid mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, attends the palace ball where she meets the prince of her dreams.
Melisande
E. Nesbit · 43 pages
Cursed by an evil fairy at her christening, Princess Melisande grows up bald but finds herself facing another set of problems when her wish for golden hair is fulfilled.
Big Pumpkin
Erica Silverman · 32 pages
A witch trying to pick a big pumpkin on Halloween discovers the value of cooperation when she gets help from a series of monsters.
Sleeping Beauty: a Little Golden Book
Michael Teitelbaum, Walt Disney Company
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat!
Lucille Colandro · 32 pages
Scaredy-Cat, Splat!
Rob Scotton
It's Halloween, and Splat is determined to be the scariest cat in the class. Unfortunately, he's just too much of a scaredy-cat. He's afraid of a little spider, and everyone says his costume looks more silly than scary. And when Mrs. Wimpydimple tells a ghost story in the dark, Splat gets so frightened that he tips over his jack-o'-lantern. But when the lights go back on, the entire class is scare
Boris and Bella
Carolyn Crimi · 32 pages
Bella Legrossi and Boris Kleanitoff, the messiest and cleanest monsters in Booville respectively, do nothing but argue until the night of Harry Beastie's Halloween party.
Click, Clack, Boo!: A Tricky Treat
Doreen Cronin · 40 pages
Farmer Brown does not like Halloween. So he draws the shades, puts on his footy pajamas, and climbs into bed. But do you think the barnyard animals have any respect for a man in footy pajamas? No, they do not. For them, the Halloween party has just begun. And we all know these critters far prefer tricks over treats. There are big surprises in store for Farmer Brown!
The Runaway Pumpkin
Kevin Lewis · 32 pages
The Baxter brothers find a wonderful pumpkin for Halloween, but first they must catch up with it when it rolls down the hill.