Adorable pumpkin books for first grade and kindergarten fall read alouds aren’t hard to find but some of them can surprisingly be a little scary, so I thought I would make a list of cute pumpkin books for kids! 🙂 I put affiliate links (I earn commission for sales made through the links) directly to them so you can go straight to them to check them out if you want to!

Splat the Cat and the Pumpkin-Picking Plan is just one of many Splat the Cat books that I love. Such funny stories with an adorable, lovable character that kids can laugh at while exploring topics. I love the fall imagery in this one like raking leaves and going to the pumpkin patch. The illustrations are fun and cute – it’s a great book to use as your first (or 100th) fall read aloud!

This one is another favorite of mine! Little Boo is about the cutest little pumpkin seed who wants to be scary. He keeps being told to wait and, as he’s waiting, he goes through the life cycle of a pumpkin so it is a perfect and adorable fictional story to illustrate the life cycle of a pumpkin while simply telling a cute story! I think the ending of the book is super cute & it’s a story kids can relate to… where they want to be able to do something ‘big kids’ get to do and are told to wait (and wait and wait) until they’re bigger. 🙂

I also love How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? for fall!

There are several cute little lessons in this book so it’s a wonderful read aloud for a couple reasons. A little boy who is the smallest kid in his class doesn’t have a guess when his teacher brings 3 pumpkins to school and asks how many seeds the students think are in each one. It has a sweet don’t make assumptions based on what someone/something looks like message and also introduces pumpkin seeds and counting big numbers. It would be an awesome book to read right before cutting open a pumpkin with your kids and counting how many seeds it has.

You probably already have this super popular book about a square pumpkin but I am still going to include it because it’s one of my favorites and maybe there are people who haven’t heard of it! It has such a sweet message. It’s also so easy to find activities for since so many teachers read it to their students. Square pumpkin crafts are an adorable, easy activity to do after reading, for example.

How cute is this little toy of the square pumpkin I found while finding a link to the book for you? I didn’t know this existed – so cute!! There is also a movie that I didn’t know about too!

Another pumpkin who is a little bit different is Stumpkin! This cute little pumpkin watches all the other pumpkins with stems get picked. This is a great one to add to your pumpkin book shelf if you don’t have it already!

I love Froggy books so, of course, I wanted to include Froggy Picks a Pumpkin as one of my pumpkin books for first grade or kindergarten! 🙂

Another cute character I love is Rocket! Rocket and the Perfect Pumpkin is a book some first graders will be able to read themselves so if you’re looking for a reader, this is a cute one.

I wanted to make sure I included a book with real pictures for those of you who want to teach kids about the life cycle of a pumpkin. I chose this one because I love the vivid photographs in it. They’re great to illustrate to little kids what each stage actually looks. If you have a nonfiction book with real life pictures that you love, I’d love to hear about it!

Did I include your favorite pumpkin book?? Which one is your favorite? If I didn’t include it, tell me what your favorite story is below! I would love to add to my favorite pumpkin books and it’ll help everyone else who reads this to find more books too! 🙂

I hope you enjoyed this list of pumpkin books for first grade and kindergarten!

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Christmas Books for Kids 2021 Ultimate List… are you ready? These are my absolute favorite children’s books to read aloud in December!

I had so much fun compiling this list and can’t wait to share it with you! On Wednesday, I shared my favorite 18 Gingerbread Man Books (mostly fun twists on the original story). Yesterday I shared my favorite Pirate Christmas Books and I have a lot more of these Christmas books lists to share with you this weekend and week!

I provided the links for you to see them directly on Amazon if you want to check them out – some links are affiliate links which means I get commission if you buy from the links, it’s no extra cost for you but I just wanted to let you know!

Mooseltoe is one of my favorite Christmas books to read aloud. Kids love this silly book and I do too!

Olive, the other reindeer is an adorable story about a dog who thinks she is a reindeer. If you don’t have this one, definitely check it out. It’s an instant favorite!

Another cute reindeer book is The Great Reindeer Rebellion. Santa’s reindeer go on strike and he tries to audition other animals for the job. Adorable illustrations and great rhyming – this one is so fun to read aloud.

Snowmen at Christmas is part of the amazing Snowmen at Night series that kids just adore. The illustrations are so beautiful and engaging.

How Santa Got His Job is another great one!

If you do a gingerbread unit or your kids love gingerbread man stories, The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas is an awesome one to add to your collection! It is such a fun twist on the classic story.

This book is included in my big list of my favorite Gingerbread Man Books 🙂

Is there anything cuter than this pug? He’s an elf this time in Pig the Elf! Hilarious as always and amazing illustrations that will have your kids giggling right away! If you haven’t read any of the books in this series, check them out – so fun.

I love all the night before Christmas books and you probably already have one so I wanted to share this super fun twist on them… A Pirate’s Night Before Christmas! Exciting and playful rhyming make this so great to read aloud. Love it!

This is included in my favorite Pirate Christmas Books list!

Santa’s Sleigh is on its Way to Texas is one of those Christmas books for kids you can get for YOUR STATE – so cool! 🙂 They also have them for some cities like Philadelphia, for example! So whether you live in Colorado or California, Oregon or Ohio, find your state’s book. Kids think it is the coolest thing!

You can also look for your town or state in the Santa is Coming to Indiana type books too!

There are so many more books like these for different cities and states, sometimes even smaller cities! To find yours, I recommend using the drop down box to filter by Books then try searching Santa [your state]. For example, if you live in Ohio, type in Santa Ohio and you get multiple options for fun books for your area 🙂

Santa Bruce is such an adorable Bruce book! Bruce is back again and this time it’s for Christmas 🙂

Santa’s Stuck is a popular read aloud for kindergarten and first grade kids! Santa has a few too many cookies and treats and gets stuck in the chimney in this hilarious little book.

How to Catch an Elf is such a fun story and a great way to practice how to writing after reading! Kids have so much fun coming up with their own plans!

Another great book to spark imagination is The 12 Sleighs of Christmas. The elves have to scramble to fix Santa’s sleigh before Christmas. They have a build off and they come up with such fun and clever inventions!

Have your kids been asking you how many days until Christmas since, like, July? 🙂 How Many Sleeps ’til Christmas? pokes fun of that a little in this adorable story about a little bear who wants to know how many sleeps he has to do until it’s Christmas. A great story to read the week before Christmas!

Speaking of asking how many days until Christmas, let’s talk about the ridiculously cute How Many Quacks till Christmas? book. All the animals on the farm want to know how long until Christmas. From the moment the little piglets ask how many oinks there are until Christmas, your kids will be hooked. It’s SUCH an adorable farm themed book with even more adorable illustrations.

Even More Christmas Books for Kids

Want even more Christmas books for your bookshelf? These are great books with characters kids know and love from all their other books!

After you figure out how many oinks until Christmas, have even more Christmas on the farm fun with Click, Clack, Ho! Ho! Ho!

I love Splat! A fun one to add to your collection of Splat books is Merry Christmas, Splat! This silly kitty is one of my favorite book characters.

I also love Froggy books so I definitely wanted to include Froggy’s Best Christmas 🙂

The Not Very Merry Pout-Pout Fish is also a popular bookshelf choice. It actually has a great message too!

How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas is a fantastic book if your kids love dinosaurs! Or if they love the rest of the How Do Dinosaurs books. 🙂

and, of course, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies! These are always fun to read aloud. They’re simple, cute, and easy to add to your bin of books to read.

I hope you enjoyed this list of Christmas books!

There are so many great ones but these are some of my favorites. I didn’t include some of the super classic Christmas stories because I figure you probably already have them and wanted to introduce you to new and fun ones! I also apologize if I used the word fun 500 times. Can’t help it – reading Christmas books is FUN! 🙂

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Pirate Christmas Books are SO yo ho ho much fun for kids! Here is a list of my favorites. Whether your kids love pirates or you simply want more silly and fun books to read aloud in December, this list is for you!

This is part of a series of my favorite Christmas books I have been sharing! Today’s theme is Pirate Christmas Books!

I provided the links for you to see them directly on Amazon if you want to check them out – some links are affiliate links which means I get commission if you buy from the links, it’s no extra cost for you but I just wanted to let you know!

A Pirate’s Night Before Christmas is probably my favorite on the list. Great, fun illustrations and I Love the clever rhymes. I personally think it’s funny and so much fun to read aloud. Even if you’re not a pirate voice kind of person, it’s hard to not read it that way with the adorable rhymes. Such a fun twist on the classic story. I definitely recommend this one!

A Pirate’s Twelve Days of Christmas – another fun twist on a classic written by the same author. Again, such fun illustrations! You might find yourself singing each time you say the last line 🙂

The Gingerbread Pirates is another favorite Christmas book of mine! This actually might be my favorite on this list. It is so much fun and it has awesome illustrations. SO much fun to read aloud. You’ll probably find yourself reading it even when it’s not Christmas time. It’s actually on my big list of 18 Gingerbread Man Books that I recommend – check out that list too if you haven’t!

If You Ever Want to Bring a Pirate to Meet Santa, Don’t! – This book is hilarious! If you can’t tell by now, great illustrations are important to me and this one has fantastic ones too!

Captain Bling’s Christmas Plunder – This is SUCH a sweet book! Super cute illustrations too. It’s another fun pirate twist on the night before story. I love that it has a great message too – I absolutely love the ending! This is definitely one of my favorites. I know I already said the first book on this list was my favorite but I think it actually might be this one. They’re both wonderful! Honestly, I love all the books on this list so much that they’re each my favorite as I read them. 🙂

I hope you enjoyed this short list! Yes, there are more pirate Christmas books for kids out there but I only recommend books I know and love and these are my favorites!

Just because a pirate Christmas book isn’t on this list doesn’t mean it’s not awesome. It may just be that I haven’t read it. 🙂 Is there a pirate Christmas book you love that you want me to add to the list? Tell me below!

Yo ho ho and Merry Christmas!!

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A big list of the best books for grammar read alouds organized by grammar skill! These books are my favorites for kids to learn about nouns and verbs all the way to similes and metaphors.

It was a lot of work but I had a lot of fun making this list of grammar books! I hope you love it!

Grammar Read Alouds – Organized by Skill

There are actually a lot of great books with fabulous pictures to teach all the different grammar skills that I love so I wanted to compile a list for you to be able to find them quickly and easily and save as a reference for when you go to teach each grammar concept during the year. I provided the links for you to see them directly on Amazon if you want to check them out – some links are affiliate links which means I get commission if you buy from the links, it’s no extra cost for you but I wanted to let you know!

NOUNS

One of the first grammar concepts taught is nouns!

My favorite way to introduce nouns is to quickly say that a noun is a person, place, or thing and then read a fun book to try to find all the  nouns! A great book to do that with is Incredible Ned – it is a really cute rhyming book about a little boy with an awesome imagination. When he pictures a word in his head, that thing appears… and that thing is usually a noun so it makes it really easy to find a lot of nouns in the book. I recommend reading the book in front of an easel and having kids race to raise their hands when you turn the page if they see any new nouns then write them down before reading the page. It makes it a lot of fun to hunt for nouns together 🙂

Any of the books in the There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly series are also awesome for this! Read the book aloud then have students raise their hands when they hear or see a new noun – they think it’s really fun to do that! Since each page is a new thing the old lady swallowed, there are plenty of nouns in the book to find!

These books exist for a lot of different themes and holidays so it’s especially fun to pick one from the series for whatever time of year it is! For example, in my Best Halloween Books for October Read Alouds book list, I put the There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat version 🙂

This book is part of a series you’ll see a few times in this post. I honestly find these books so cute and easy to use to introduce parts of speech. This one, If You Were a Noun, has an adorable space theme and is a great first book to read to introduce nouns.

This book to teach nouns is also part of a series. This author has written a lot of books to help teach the different parts of speech and I like this one – A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink – for teaching nouns.

A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime is also by the same author if you can’t tell 🙂

You can also get a 12 book set of his books that includes the 2 above if you end up wanting a lot of these.

Okay so speaking of bundles of books, this book Chicken in the City also comes in the Grammar Tales 10 book bundle!

This is a cute little book about a chicken named Lu-Lu who lived on a farm then moved to the city. The book has a ton of nouns in it to spot together so it’s a fun one to read while you’re still in the spotting nouns phase of teaching nouns 🙂

Verbs

Okay, moving on to verbs! You’ll notice some of these books in the verbs category (and other upcoming categories) will be books from some of the book series that I mentioned in the Nouns section.

A Verb for Herb is another cute Grammar Tales book I love for introducing parts of speech!

Another book for introducing verbs is If You Were a Verb that is by the same author as the If You Were a Noun book above. Like I said, you’ll notice a lot of my recommendations end up being from the same series. I like consistency and think it helps kids realize you’re introducing a new topic when they see the new book. Plus I simply like these!

To Root, to Toot, to Parachute is another cute verbs book. Be prepared for a lot of giggles when someone points out what a toot can be 🙂

For even more verbs practice from this author, you can also read Slide and Slurp, Scratch and Burp

This book and the one right above this are also in that 12 book set I mentioned in the Nouns section.

So this book, It’s Hard to be a Verb, is actually not a book specifically to teach parts of speech but I still love it to read while learning verbs because it’s about a little boy who has trouble paying attention and sitting still (pretty sure some of your students can relate!)

If you want more books to teach specific behaviors, one of my favorite lists I’ve ever made is my Classroom Management Books Organized by Behavior list so you can literally pick any classroom behavior your students are struggling with (tattling, blurting, sharing, whatever) and find the perfect book to read aloud to teach them how to properly behave. It really is one of the best book lists I’ve ever made – definitely check it out whether you’re a teacher or a parent 🙂

Adjectives

Adjectives are one of my favorite grammar concepts because it’s fun to describe things! You can literally pick any thing or anyone for kids to describe and they are instantly good at finding adjectives 🙂

My favorite way to introduce adjectives is with The Very Cranky Bear! You could use this idea with any book you love that has a character that can be described with a lot of adjectives. The picture on the front cracks me up and so clearly illustrates what “cranky” means. Start off with talking about the picture and what cranky might mean based on the picture. Once you establish its meaning, talk about how it’s an adjective and that an adjective is a word that describes something. That starts another great conversation of other adjectives they could use to describe the bear – let them tell you he’s big, hairy, grumpy, etc. and write down the words they come up with to describe him. Such a perfect little lesson to introduce adjectives! Then, of course, you open the book and read it and it’s adorable 🙂

Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky: More about Adjectives is another great Brian P. Cleary book but this time for adjectives!

If You Were an Adjective is another great book for teaching adjectives. It does touch on types of adjectives like comparatives and superlatives so it’s a nice way to introduce that when your kids are ready.

My favorite book to introduce comparatives and superlatives, though, is Breezier, Cheesier, Newest, and Bluest because the illustrations are just so much fun!

Another cute book you can read when studying comparative adjectives is a fictional read aloud about 3 pigs that are brothers: Pig, Pigger, and Piggest. You can make this into a fun lesson by taking adjectives and adding -er and -est to them and then deciding if they’re real words or not. You’ll come up with some silly words so it can be a fun lesson 🙂

Adverbs

Adverbs are important but a little trickier to teach than adjectives so I think having great books with examples is especially important for this concept.

Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb? is another funny rhyming grammar book from the series I keep sharing. Can you tell I like these?? 🙂

There’s another one for even more practice called Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More about Adverbs to keep practicing what makes a word an adverb.

A fun book to practice recognizing adverbs is Suddenly Alligator! It is filled with adverbs that stand out in the sentences. A fun activity you can do is have students raise their hands if they think they hear an adverb. If several hands go up (which they will because, even if they don’t hear them, some kids will notice how the word changes in the sentences and know to raise their hand), say, “Ooh! Okay, let’s read it again and see if you can find it” to give everyone a chance to raise their hand when they hear it. Once you identify the adverb, read the sentence again to have them figure out what verb it describes. I don’t recommend doing this for every sentence but it’s fun to do for a few!

I really like this book in general because it is a silly little book kids enjoy and has a ton of vocabulary potential. I feel like it uses a lot of words kids may not know but can easily understand by the picture and/or a quick explanation. For example, “approached” is a word young kids may not know that you can easily act out and help them learn while reading the book. Because of that, I feel like you can read this book multiple times and focus on different things each time – making predictions (the first time you read it), adverbs, vocabulary building, and more!

I also like If You Were an Adverb for introducing or practicing adverbs because it emphasizes how adverbs describe a verb with helpful, illustrated examples… even saying verbs and adverbs go together like peanut butter and jelly 🙂 I recommend having your students stop and identify the verb in each sentence then the adverb that goes with it as a fun practice exercise as you read it. You could do this one first instead of the first books I mentioned if this series is what your students are used to.

This book is super silly and cute!! I love it as a fun read aloud in general but it is also filled with adverbs and adjectives so you can practice the difference between the two. Adjectives are in red text and adverbs are in green text so kids can even practice independently. You could have them write the adjective and the noun it describes… and the adverb and the verb it describes – as a whole group, small group, or even independent activity. I love it as a read aloud though because it’s so fun! The book I am talking about is The Big Problem (and the Squirrel Who Eventually Solved It) as you can see to the left. It also has a great message about not judging others and how everyone can be friends 🙂

Contractions

I’m and Won’t, They’re and Don’t: What’s a Contraction? is a book you can use to introduce contractions. It introduces kids to apostrophes and shows how they replace letters to form contractions

If You Were a Contraction is another book you can use to help explain it to kids!

Once you learn contractions, encourage your kids to point them out to you in books or anywhere they see them. It can be a fun game to try to find them. Whenever they find them, figure out with them what 2 words may have formed the contraction they’re seeing. It’s an easy way to incorporate grammar into your everyday life in a fun and meaningful way.

Compound Words

Compounds words are so much fun!!! I absolutely love the giggles that come from smushing 2 words together that sound so silly to see if they’re a compound word. It’s such a fun thing you can do all day with 2 words to see if the 2 words make a compound word or a silly nonsense word. There are a ton of books that have compound words in them but these are some fun ones to explicitly teach it:

I like Thumbtacks, Earwax, Lipstick, Dipstick: What is a Compound Word? for introducing compound words. It’s just so nice to have these books if you’re new to teaching grammar and want help explaining concepts. Even if you’re not new, it’s nice to have all the visuals and examples. I feel like kids retain the introductory lessons better when they had word and picture examples in a read aloud form, which is why I wanted to make this list, because it’s my favorite way to introduce new grammar concepts.

A fun little book you can read that makes light and fun of compound words is Flying Butter. It’s a silly way to practice compound words in a fun read aloud.

Once There was a Bull… (frog) is a cute simple little story where the pages end with half of a compound word and the next page starts with the 2nd half. I love this because it shows how each part of the word is its own word combined into 1 word. Once kids pick up on the pattern, they love to try to guess what the compound word is going to be once they get the first half of the word 🙂

Then there’s also the If You Were a Compound Word if you’re more into that series. I like the above books better for introducing compound words but I think it’s nice to have consistency if you’ve been using this series (and I LOOOVE a lot of the books in this series for other concepts). I just think there’s a lot of other fun compound word books.. so many books use compound words in the titles (butterfly books, strawberry, etc.) so there are a ton of different books you can use or display while teaching compound words.

Prepositions

Prepositions are another fun grammar concept to teach. You can hide an object all around the room and then have kids describe its position using prepositions. Have a little toy dog and hide it under a pillow, on top of a desk, and so on! There are also a lot of picture books dedicated to teaching prepositions since it’s usually taught pretty early in a child’s grammar learning.

Around the House the Fox Chased the Mouse: A Prepositional Tale is a super fun read aloud that practices prepositions. The illustrations of the animals are awesome in this book! They illustrate the prepositions in such a fun way. I think it’s such a great book for introducing positional words!

Of course, If You Were a Preposition to continue following the series.

As well as the next book in the other series – Under, Over, By the Clover: What is a Preposition? I think this book and the one above are great as well but prepositions are a pretty easy grammar concept to teach, in my opinion, that I think you could just use fun books that have a lot of prepositions in them, act them out, and have your kids understand pretty quickly. I might make a list of books just for teaching prepositions because there really are so many… and they’re a lot of fun!

Pronouns

I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What is a Pronoun? is my favorite book for introducing the concept of pronouns. It makes the comparison of pronouns being like a substitute teacher and say they are sub for nouns. It seems a little silly but I think it’s a really easy way to relate it to students. It’s also a great way to remind them what a pronoun is.

If You Were a Pronoun is also great practice to keep recognizing them in sentences and the nouns they replace.

Alliteration

There are SO many books with alliteration in them. So many that I want to create a separate post for them – I will compile a list of my favorite kids’ books with alliteration and link it here when I do 🙂

Conjunctions

Coming soon! 🙂 I already have books picked out for this and the below categories but it takes me awhile to format the lists so they are easy to see the books in an easy format so I am going to publish this now so I can get it out to you right away! Please save this page to check back later so you can see my new recommendations – this has been so fun to write so far to share my favorite books for grammar and I hope you’ve enjoyed it so far!

Interjections

Coming soon! Cool! 😉

Similes

Coming soon! Similes are SO fun.

Metaphors

Metaphors also coming soon!

I also have even more grammar books lists I want to make for skills that I have more than just a couple of recommendations for that I want to dedicate an entire post to. You can follow me on Facebook if you want to see when I announce new lists! You can also use the little Facebook icon below to share this post if you want to save it that way to remember to come back for the new books I share.

Okay, so I am excited to get the rest of the book recommendations out to you but I can’t wait to get these ones out first! I have been working on this post for SO long and I just don’t want to wait any longer! 🙂 I hope you have loved it so far!!

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Best Halloween books for October read alouds!

Here are some of my favorite Halloween books! I provided the links for you to see them directly on Amazon if you want to check them out – some links are affiliate links which means I get commission if you buy from the links, it’s no extra cost for you but I just wanted to let you know!

Room on the Broom is a classic and favorite of many kindergarten and first grade teachers. You can find a ton of fun learning activities to go along with it because of this. It’s a cute story about a witch flying on her broom but she keeps dropping things! Every time she goes to pick up what she dropped, another creature asks if there’s room on her broom to hop on. Her broom finally snaps and a dragon snatches her up. The ending is really cute! I highly recommend this one to read aloud to your kids.

Halloween Hustle is about a skeleton dancing down the street. It’s one of those books that rhymes in such a fun flowing way that makes it really fun to read. The pictures are fantastic and engaging for young kids. It’s a silly book kids always love to hear read aloud.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Stein have a son, Frankie Stein, and are shocked when he looks… normal! They try all sorts of things to make him look and act scary. I love the ending – he practices and practices in his room trying to be scary for his parents and then comes out looking like himself (a normal kid) and his parents are terrified – he’s the scariest in the family! It has a great underlying message about being yourself.

I actually love Frankie Stein Starts School even more! It has really great pictures. Frankie from the book above starts school and the other kids – vampires, witches, etc. – think he looks funny (because he looks like a normal kid). They aren’t very nice to him because he isn’t scary looking like them. Throughout the day, Frankie does cool and scary things and scares the kids and they end up loving him. It’s a great story to talk about how you should be kind to everyone even when they are different. This is definitely one of my favorite Halloween read alouds!

Dragon’s Halloween is a great book that has several stories about a silly dragon character. One of the stories he goes into the woods and hears scary growling and gets scared… but it turns out it was just his stomach! The stories are really cute and will have your kids laughing and loving Dragon.

Another dragon themed Halloween book I love is Me and My Dragon: Scared of Halloween. A little boy loves doing things with his dragon but his dragon is scared of Halloween so he dresses him up as a bunch of silly things trying to get him excited for Halloween but his costumes don’t work out which make for really funny illustrations. He ends up just being a dragon for Halloween and people are amazed at his “dragon” costume. 🙂

Who else needs a costume? A monster! Monster Needs a Costume is another hilarious book about a traditionally scary (but totally not) creature needing to find a Halloween costume. I love reading this one aloud! It’s a silly rhyming non-scary monster book about a monster who needs to find a Halloween costume and tries out a few options. It’s a book that definitely makes kids giggle, especially when he puts on a tutu to be a ballerina!

My Monster Mama Loves Me So isn’t necessarily a Halloween book but it’s about monsters so you can definitely read it in October with your Halloween books. It’s such a cute story about all the way his monster mama takes care of him with super funny plays on words like she goes to all his beastball games and makes sure he brushes his fangs. It flows really well as a read aloud and the pictures are really great. It really is so sweet – it would actually be a great bedtime story too!

I also love Fright Club! A group of monsters try to start a fright club but then some cute little critters want to join! The monsters turn them down and say it’s for scary monsters only. The little critters hatch a plan and scare the monsters which helps the monsters realize everyone can be scary and the more the merrier in their club! Not only is this a silly read aloud kids love with fun illustrations but it is a great book to start discussions on why it’s important to include everyone and to not leave anyone out. This is one of my favorites!

Little Baby Mummy doesn’t want to go to bed so he plays hide and go seek with his Mummy (mom) and, as he looks for her, he runs into a lot of fun Halloween characters that tell him to go to bed while he looks. I love how he runs into a lot of characters who would normally be scary but he’s not scared… until he sees a tiny little mouse. Where’s My Mummy? has great illustrations and it’s such a fun non-scary Halloween book to read aloud.

The Spooky Wheels on the Bus is a Halloween version of the famous song. You can sing it to your kids and they will LOVE it! …and probably sing a long 🙂 You can also sing-song read it which is what I do. Such a fun book for Halloween!

If you like singing books, you’ll love Shake Dem Halloween Bones too! I read it in a sing-song-y way but you could definitely sing it if you wanted to. It has a fun repetitiveness to it so be prepared for your kids to sing along with you! This is a favorite of many teachers and kids alike.

It’s also hard not to sing along to The 13 Nights of Halloween too. It is written to the tune of the popular Christmas song as it goes through Halloween things.

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat is a must read Halloween book so you can read them for each holiday. Kids just love this series. They’re a lot of fun to read aloud and see what the little old lady eats next. This book is also on my giant list of Best Bats Books where I show all my favorite bats books which are also great October read alouds.

Another favorite of many teachers and kids is The Hallo-Wiener. It’s about a sweet wiener dog named Oscar that the other dogs at obedience school make fun. His mom makes him a hot dog costume for Halloween, although he’s embarrassed and doesn’t want to wear it, he doesn’t want to hurt his mom’s feelings so he does. The other dogs make fun of him and he can’t keep up with them so he doesn’t get any treats. However, when a monster scares the other dogs, his size that they make fun of is what makes him able to save them. It has a great message about treating others who are different with kindness and not to be cheesy but I love when an underDOG saves the day. 🙂

Working Mummies is a fun rhyming book with wonderful illustrations that go through all the jobs mummies (play on the word “mommy”) do like teacher, doctor, waitress, librarian, etc. with fantastic illustrations of Halloween characters like the dentist mummy who replaces vampire teeth. It has so many fun pictures – it’s a great read aloud!

The Littlest Pumpkin at the pumpkin patch has big dreams to be a beautiful jack-o’-lantern but people keep coming to the pumpkin patch and not picking her. All the pumpkins get chosen one by one but her. The patch closes and she’s sad and alone… but after the stand closes, all the mice come out and have a Halloween party and turn her into a Jack-o’-lantern and she’s so happy. Such a sweet story! You can use it to talk about how the other people didn’t pick her because she was small but how she was absolutely the perfect size for the mice. Another book with a great message!

Splat the Cat: What Was That? is a fun one – kids love Splat! Splat the Cat and his friend are trick or treating and they have one house left… the spooky old house! I always love the fun illustrations from the Splat the Cat books!

Scaredy Cat, Splat! is another fun Splat the Cat Halloween book to read to your kids!

If you have kids who love dinosaurs (what kid doesn’t?), they’ll love this cute story, T. Rex Trick-or-Treats! T. Rex wants to be something scary for Halloween. He keeps saying everything isn’t scary enough until he realizes he can just be himself. It’s a fun read aloud! This is also on my Fun Books for Teaching R Blends list! 🙂

The Night Before Halloween is a fun book to read the day of Halloween in class (or at home) if you have school that day. There are a lot of books in this series so I like having these in my collection to add a familiar rhyming book to read the night before holidays.

Wee Witches’ Halloween is a non-scary book about witches. In fact, they want to be scary and aren’t very good at it. 🙂 I love this simple rhyming book for its detailed pictures and adorable storyline. The young witches go to witch school to learn how to scare but they’re not very scary and even win a costume contest for their “witch costumes.”

Another fun witch book is A Very Brave Witch. All the witches are terrified of humans because they’re different from them. Sweet and funny story about how the brave witch ends up making a human friend and finds out they’re not so scary after all. I absolutely love the sassy kitty character in Alison McGhee books and kids love finding the cat and pointing him out on all the pages.

Crankenstein looks like a Halloween book so it’d fit in for October read alouds but it’s more of a book about being cranky but it’s fun to read this time of year. Kids love it as a read aloud and it’s good to start a discussion about how to act when you’re cranky. For a HUGE list of books BY behavior for a lot of great classroom discussions, check out my Giant List of Books By Behavior!

Skeleton Meets the Mummy stars Sammy the skeleton. He is so excited to go trick or treating but his mom has him go on an errand to drop off soup to his Grandma Bones first. On the way, he hears spooky noises then he runs into a mummy! All the sound words the author uses makes it really fun to read aloud and the illustrations are cutesy not scary.

Monster Mischief is about some monster friends who get together to make monster stew on Halloween but they tip it over by accident! This book has a fun rhyming scheme and is silly like when one of the monsters rips his pants. It’s a fun read aloud to add to your collection if you need more.

A Halloween Scare at my House is a fun read rhyming aloud where a lot of monsters come to town to give people a fright! They end up giving the boy the prize for best costume for being a scary kid. 🙂 Kids love this one!

Bad Kitty is one of my favorite children’s book characters so I had to include Bad Kitty Scaredy-Cat! If you don’t have Bad Kitty books for your library, you need to get some ASAP! They are hilarious, kids love them, and it’s hard not to fall in love with the bad kitty! The series has a few great picture books that make great read alouds as well as easy chapter books that are perfect for kids just starting on chapter books.

Kids, especially boys, also LOVE Fly Guy so Fly Guy and the Frankenfly is a great book to have in your collection for your boys. As always with Fly Guy books, the illustrations and story are funny and great!

I love having all the Froggy books for every holiday so, of course, Froggy’s Halloween is one of them!

For your kids who love Click, Clack, Moo, Click, Clack, Boo! is a fun Halloween version about how Farmer Brown doesn’t like the spooky sounds of Halloween but his farm animals have a different plan! They throw a Halloween party in the barn.

For your girls who love the Pinkalicious books, get Pinkalicious: Pink or Treat for more Pinkalicious fun.

A lot of little girls also love the Fancy Nancy series so I included Fancy Nancy: Halloween… or Bust! in this list.

I really hope you’ve enjoyed this list of my favorite Halloween books! Hopefully you have found some new ones to add to your collection.

Don’t forget to check out my Best Bats Books list for more October reading fun!

I love children’s books and making lists so I have a lot more book lists coming! Follow me on Facebook and Instagram to keep up as well as check back here. 🙂

To check out some more of the lists I’ve already made, check out:

Best Back to School Read Alouds

Best Books by Behavior (great for teaching specific behaviors like tattling, sharing, etc.!)

Back to School Books for Kindergarten

Flexible Seating Classroom Options and Ideas

Classroom Must Haves

Reading Must Haves

Math Must Haves

Huge List of Classroom Jobs

How to Organize Classroom Jobs

8 Reasons Why Kids Need Recess

Best Bats Books for first grade or kindergarten to learn about bats!

Here are some of my favorite bats books! I provided the links for you to see them directly on Amazon if you want to check them out – some links are affiliate links which means I get commission if you buy from the links, it’s no extra cost for you but I just wanted to let you know! Bats are one of my favorite science topics because kids love learning about them and there are so many misconceptions that kids find the real facts fascinating!

I LOVE Home in the Cave – it’s my favorite bats book! It is an adorable fictional book but it’s packed with great bat vocabulary and information! Baby Bat is afraid to leave his cave. One night his mom goes out to hunt for bugs and he apprehensively learns to fly and ends up meeting a lot of other night animals out exploring. It has great illustrations and the way it teaches you so much about bats with a sweet fictional story kids can relate to is just perfect.

Hello, Bumblebee Bat is a fantastic book for introducing kids to bats. It has simple text where each page asks the little bumblebee bat a question like what he eats or where he lives and he answers with great information about bats. It’s laid out in a way that makes it a great read aloud or even a book they can try to read themselves. Bumblebee bats are the smallest bats in the world so kids think they’re adorable as well!

Bat Jamboree is a really cute counting book about performing bats! Even though it’s a counting book, it’s definitely a book first graders and even second graders would still love to hear read aloud.

Bats on Parade is by the same author and so much fun! This book also has a math component but the counting is by 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, and 10s so it’d be a really great introduction to arrays and multiplication but you could completely skip the concept and just have it be a really fun read aloud for little ones. The illustrations are great and it’s fun to see all the ways the bats participate in the parade!

Fly Guy Presents: Bats is a book kids love that combines fiction and nonfiction. Fly Guy is a classroom favorite so I love seeing them making these books to teach science concepts. Buzz and Fly Guy go to a bat cave at the zoo and learn all about bats. It has great kid-friendly text, fun illustrations, and real photos.

If you’re looking for great nonfiction for bats, definitely check out Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats! I think it’s really well written with interesting facts about bats. It’s a little more text heavy than a typical read aloud but the way it is written and the content keeps it engaging!

Bats by Gail Gibbons is another interesting nonfiction book about bats that you most likely have already. I love the way it labels the bats in the book. It’s a great read aloud to teach kids about bats.

Stellaluna is a classroom classic. It’s a cute story about a baby bat who ends up in a bird nest with baby birds. You can find so many learning activities to go along with this book since it’s a classroom favorite of many teachers.

If you love the baby bat theme, Nightsong is precious. It’s about a baby bat who goes out flying by himself and his mom tells him to use his “good sense” and has beautiful illustrations to show how the little bat learns how to use echolocation from his point of view.

Little Bat is also about a baby bat who is going to venture out into the night by himself. All of the animals encourage him each with a piece of advice, typically 1 sentence for the 2 pages. The illustrations are fantastic – I love how they span across both pages and are really engaging.

What Is A Bat? is a great nonfiction book with a lot of information about bats.

National Geographic Readers: Bats is also a great nonfiction book for kids to read about bats. Kids love the real pictures and it’s filled with information.

Bats: Biggest! Littlest! is another great informational book on bats with engaging real photographs and fun facts laid out in an interesting way. It’s written in a way that gives a lot of information but in a way that kids can easily understand so it’s a great addition to your library, especially for kids to pick up and peruse themselves.

Bats (Nocturnal Animals) is another book with engaging real photographs to have in your library for kids to pick up and learn about bats.

Bats – Creatures of the Night has illustrations rather than real photographs but is another nice reader for your 1st or 2nd grade students to read and learn about bats themselves.

Biggety Bat: Hot Diggety, It’s Biggety! is a really cute fictional Level 1 Reader that has really cute pictures and a fun rhyme and repetition so kids will enjoy reading it themselves. It’s about an adorable bat named Biggety who sees that all the other animals have friends and he wants friends too.

Bats Around the Clock is another fun rhyming book starring dancing bats that also incorporates time to the hour. You could easily ignore the math concept and just use it as a fun read aloud OR use it to introduce telling time to the hour. It’d be an easy and fun way to incorporate math into your science and reading.

Bats at the Library is one of several books in a series by Brian Lies that shows bats having a lot of fun in different places! They’re great read alouds! I love the illustrations and the rhyming makes them so much fun to read aloud. The bats go into the library in the middle of the night and have a lot of fun reading books and playing games in the library.

He also has Bats at the Beach which features great illustrations and rhyming text This is the one I like the most in the series! I love that the bats use moon-tan lotion and roast bug-mallows. It shows all the games and activities the bats play at the beach – they even surf! I just love this one for reading aloud.

In Bats in the Band, the bats all play instruments and play a concert.

In Bats at the Ballgame, the bats all go to see their favorite bat baseball players play a game.

Magic School Bus Going Batty is one of my favorites because I love using Magic School Bus videos and books for teaching science topics. Kids love the adventures of Ms. Frizzle and her class. In this one, the bus grows bat wings, the class turns into bats, and Ralphie is convinced Ms. Frizzle is a vampire. This book throws in a ton of learning about bats so it’s a great book to read to teach about bats while enjoying an exciting fictional story. Kids love this one!

Another kid favorite is There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat! I absolutely love reading the books in this series aloud to kids – they just love the things the old lady swallows and the repetitive rhymes. There are books like this for so many different holidays and kids just eat them up. This one has a Halloween theme with some of the other things she swallows so it is also on my giant list of Best Halloween Books for October Read Alouds!

Ms. Bitsy Bat’s Kindergarten is about a class of animal kids who love their teacher Mr. Fox but find out they’re getting a new teacher. The kids start to worry about all the things their new teacher might not do but Ms. Bitsy Bat becomes their teacher and does all the things they worried she wouldn’t. It’s a sweet story and kids can easily relate to the fears of what your new teacher would be like. It’d actually be a great back to school read aloud! Make sure you check out my Favorite Back to School Books list and Back to School Books for Kindergarten list if you want more back to school book ideas. I also have a list of books BY behavior that are great reads for back to school or any time of the year to address specific behavior issues like tattling, worrying, interrupting, etc.

Baby Bat’s Lullaby is a sweet book with beautiful illustrations for a younger crowd. It’d be a sweet bedtime story for younger kids (preschool age) who love bats. The mom lovingly describes her baby bat as she lulls him to sleep. I just adore the pictures in this one so I had to include it.

I really hope you’ve enjoyed this list of my favorite books about bats! Hopefully you have found some new ones to add to your collection. I love children’s books and making lists so I have a lot more book lists coming! Follow me on Facebook and Instagram to keep up as well as check back here. 🙂

If you need more great October read alouds, check out:

Best Halloween Books

To check out some more of the lists I’ve already made, check out:

Best Back to School Read Alouds

Best Books by Behavior (great for teaching specific behaviors like tattling, sharing, etc.!)

Back to School Books for Kindergarten

Flexible Seating Classroom Options and Ideas

Classroom Must Haves

Reading Must Haves

Math Must Haves

Huge List of Classroom Jobs

How to Organize Classroom Jobs

8 Reasons Why Kids Need Recess

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