Great Halloween Books for Children

We asked Sheri-Daun Bedford, head of the children's department at the , which books she'd recommend for Halloween. She went above and beyond by suggesting books for both younger kids and school-aged kids.

Here are her choices:

For the preschool crowd

• Five Little Pumpkins by Iris Van Rynbach
• A Halloween Mask for Monster by Virginia Mueller
• Corduroy's Halloween by B. G. Hennessy
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat by Lucille Colandro
• Humbug Witch by Lorna Balian
• The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
• It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Charles Schulz. 

For the school age crowd:

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• The Best Halloween Ever by Barbara Robinson
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (or any of his others) by Alvin Schwartz