 | Scary Books for Preschool and Primary Grades |
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Picture Books (JE)
| Ahlberg | Funnybones |
| Aylesworth | Two Terrible Frights |
| Beames | Night Cat |
| Brown | A Dark, Dark Tale: Story and Pictures |
| Bunting | Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour |
| Compestine | Boy Dumplings |
| Edwards | What's That Noise? |
| Emberley | Go Away, Big Green Monster! |
| Flattinger | Stormy Night |
| Flora | Grandpa's Ghost Stories: Story and Pictures |
| Fox | Guess What? |
| Gackenbach | Harry and the Terrible Whatzit |
| Galdone | The Teeny-Tiny Woman: A Ghost Story |
| Gibbons | Night in the Barn |
| Goode | I Hear a Noise |
| Gravett | Wolves |
| Greene | Eek! Creak! Snicker, Sneak |
| Harness | Midnight in the Cemetery: A Spooky Search-and-Find Alphabet Book |
| Harper | The Gunniwolf |
| Hayes | This Is the Bear and the Scary Night |
| Howe | There's a Monster Under My Bed |
| Johnston | The Soup Bone |
| Lundgren | Seven Scary Monsters |
| Martin | The Ghost-Eye Tree |
| Mayer | There's a Nightmare in My Closet |
| Prelutsky | The Wizard |
| San Souci | Cinderella Skeleton |
| Stevenson | Big Scary Wolf |
| Terasaki | Ghosts for Breakfast |
| Thompson | The Night Walker |
| Turkle | Do Not Open |
| Washington | A Big Spooky House |
| Weninger | Davy, Help! It's a Ghost! |
| Wheeler | One Dark Night |
| Williams | The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything |
| Winters | Whooo's Haunting the Teeny Tiny Ghost? |
| Wood | Heckedy Peg |
| Yolen | Meet the Monsters |
| Yorinks | The Witch's Child |
Easy Readers (JE ER)
| Bang | Wiley and the Hairy Man: Adapted from an American Folktale |
| Berenstain | The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree |
| Carlson | The Night the Scarecrow Walked |
| Cazet | Minnie and Moo Meet Frankenswine |
| Cole | Bony-Legs |
| Coombs | Dorrie and the Goblin |
| Cosby | One Dark and Scary Night |
| Fleischman | The Ghost on Saturday Night |
| Impey | The Flat Man |
| Kessler | The Pirates' Adventure on Spooky Island |
| Maitland | The Bookstore Burglar |
| Marshall | Four on the Shore |
| Parish | Zed and the Monsters |
| Parish | No More Monsters for Me! |
| Schwartz | Ghosts!: Ghostly Tales from Folklore |
| Schwartz | In a Dark, Dark Room, and Other Scary Stories |
| Stamper | Five Creepy Creatures |
| Stamper | Five Goofy Ghosts |
| Standiford | The Headless Horseman |
| Thiesing | The Viper |
Nonfiction, Folktales & Poetry
| J398.2 Arnold | Baba Yaga: A Russian Folktale |
| J398.2 Galdone | The Tailypo: A Ghost Story |
| J398.2 Grimm | Hansel and Gretel |
| J398.2 Jacobs | The Buried Moon |
| J398.2 Milord | The Ghost on the Hearth |
| J808.8 DI | Diane Goode's Book of Scary Stories & Songs |
| J810.8 SC | Scared Silly!: A Book for the Brave |
Last Updated: 10/09
