All Hallows Read 2011
One of Highland Park Public Library's favorite authors, Neil Gaiman, thought up All Hallows Read last year - a new literary Halloween tradition of giving someone a scary book. On the All Hallows Read website, Gaiman, publishers, and assorted blogs around the web have provided some recommendations (including our blog post from last year, which will only remain on the web until January), but we have a few new suggestions:
Picture Books:
Poultrygeist by Mary Jane Auch
The Perfect Pumpkin Pie by Denys Cazet
Boo, Bunny! by Kathryn Osebold Galbraith
Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody by Michael Rex
Easy Readers - JP:
This Book is Haunted by Joanne Rocklin
In a Dark Dark Room, and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz
A Dark and Noisy Night: A Silly Thriller with Peggy the Pig by Lisa Thiesing
Juvenile Books - J Fiction or Nonfiction:
The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs
The Monster's Ring by Bruce Coville
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
Wait til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
Half-Minute Horrors edited by Susan Rich
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories
Young Adult Books - JY:
The Dead Boys by Royce Buckingham
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz
All Hallows' Eve: 13 Stories by Vivian Vande Velde
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories
As always, a display of Halloween books is in the Youth Department hallway, and you can ask our librarians for other suggestions by coming in to visit, or using our IM Reference services linked on our main kids' page.
If you have any favorite scary kids' reads, please recommend them in comments!!
Spooky reading!
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