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Adams, Adrienne.
A woggle of witches.
New York, Scribner [1971]
Witches are frightened by strange creatures on the night
of their special celebration.
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Apples and pumpkins / by Anne Rockwell ; pictures by
Lizzy Rockwell.
1st American ed.
New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1989
In preparation for Halloween night, a family visits
Mr. Comstock's farm to pick apples and pumpkins.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) E Sil
Big pumpkin / Erica Silverman ; illustrated by S.D.
Schindler.
1st ed.
New York : Macmillan ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canad
; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992.
A witch trying to pick a big pumpkin on Halloween
discovers the value of cooperation when she gets
help from a series of monsters.
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The biggest pumpkin ever / Steven Kroll ; illustrated
by Jeni Bassett.
1st ed.
New York : Holiday House, c1984.
Two mice, each without the other's knowledge, help a
pumpkin grow into "the biggest pumpkin ever"--but
for different purposes.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) E Kro
Branigan's cat and the Halloween ghost / by Steven Kroll
; illustrated by Carolyn Ewing.
1st ed.
New York : Holiday House, c1990. Llewellyn the cat earns the villagers'
respect when
he challenges the ghost of Martin Grimes on Halloween
night.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) E Kro
The candy witch / by Steven Kroll ; illustrated by Marylin
Hafner.
New York : Holiday House, c1979.
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Because her good deeds are not noticed, a small witch
steals every trick-or-treat bag in town on Halloween.
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The chimney witches / Victoria Whitehead ; illustrated
by Linda North.
1st American ed.
New York : Orchard Books, 1987, c1986.
When eight-year-old Ellen meets the witches living in
the chimney of her house, she experiences the most
exciting Halloween of her life.
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The closet gorilla / by Frances Ward Weller ; illustrated
by Cat Bowman Smith.
1st ed.
New York : Macmillan Pub. Co. ; Toronto : Collier
Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan
International Pub. Group, c1991.
Uncle Hugo comes to the rescue on Halloween when Ben
needs a gorilla to complete his Tarzan costume.
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Dinosaurs' Halloween / by Liza Donnelly.
New York : Scholastic, c1987.
An encounter with a fellow trick-or-treater whose dinosaur
costume is remarkably realistic gives a boy a Halloween
full of surprises.
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Dragon's Halloween : Dragon's fifth tale / Dav Pilkey.
New York : Orchard Books, 1993.
48 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Dragon has a busy and fun-filled Halloween, turning
six small pumpkins into one big jack-o-lantern, going
to a costume party, and taking a spooky walk in the
woods.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) E Han
Esteban and the ghost / adapted by Sibyl Hancock ;
pictures by Dirk Zimmer.
1st ed.
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1983.
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Esteban, a merry Spanish tinker, spends All Hallows'
Eve in a haunted castle and helps a ghost win his
way into heaven.
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Gunhilde and the Halloween spell / written and illustrated
by Virginia Kahl.
New York : Scribner, c1975.
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
On Halloween Gunhilde and her twelve sisters are led
astray by a wicked old witch who turns them into
small brown toads.
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Spooky and the ghost cat / by Natalie Savage Carlson
; illustrated by Andrew Glass.
1st ed.
New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1985.
On Halloween night, Spooky, a black cat, rescues a ghost
cat from a witch to whom he once belonged.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) E And
The Halloween party / by Lonzo Anderson ; illustrated
by Adrienne Adams.
New York : Scribner, [1974]
On Halloween Faraday Folsum runs across a party of
witches, ogres, and gremlins that are a bit too real
for comfort.
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Halloween monster / by Catherine Stock.
1st American ed.
New York : Bradbury Press, c1990.
Tommy is reluctant to dress up and go out on Halloween
until his mother convinces him that there are no
real monsters, ghosts, or witches.
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Harold & Chester in scared silly : a Halloween treat
/ James Howe ; illustrated by Leslie Morrill.
New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1989.
The Monroes leave their cat and two dogs alone on
Halloween night, unaware that their pets are about
to be visited by a strange figure who might be a
wicked witch.
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In the haunted house / by Eve Bunting ; illustrated
by Susan Meddaugh.
New York : Clarion Books, c1990.
A little girl and her father tour a dark, mysterious
house, eventually revealved to be a "Halloween House.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) E Mas
The littlest witch. Illustrated by Adrienne Adams.
New York, Knopf [1959]
unpaged illus. 20 x 26 cm.
The littlest witch makes several discoveries during
the course of her first Halloween.
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One dark night. Illustrated by Kurt Werth.
New York, Viking Press [1969
The Jack-o'-lantern, skeleton, scarecrow, witch, ghost,
and robber who came sneaking down the road one dark
night were all frightened home by the squeak of a
mouse.
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On Halloween night / Ferida Wolff and Dolores Kozielski
; pictures by Dolores Avendano.
1st ed.
New York : Tambourine Books, c1994.
Thirteen suitably creepy things from witches to snakes
and ghosts are counted in honor of Halloween.
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Pleasant Fieldmouse's Halloween party / by Jan Wahl
; pictures by Wallace Tripp.
New York : Putnam, [1974]
Despite the costumed guests' scaring each other on the
way to a party, Halloween is still celebrated in
a festive and appropriate way.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) E And
Rattlebone Rock / by Sylvia Andrews ; illustrated by
Jennifer Plecas.
1st ed.
[New York] : HarperCollins, c1995.
When skeletons, ghouls, witches, and assorted other
spooky creatures take up the rock beat, a town has
its best-ever Halloween.
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Scary, scary Halloween / Eve Bunting ; pictures by Jan
Brett.
New York : Clarion Books, c1986.
A band of trick-or-treaters and a mother cat and her
kittens spend a very scary Halloween.
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The scarecrows and their child / Mary Stolz ; with
drawings by Amy Schwartz.
New York : Harper & Row, c1987.
While looking for employment, two scarecrows become
separated from their cat child, finding each other
again on Halloween.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) E Cha
Shaggy Dog's Halloween / written and illustrated by
Donald Charles.
Chicago : Childrens Press, c1984.
Shaggy Dog's invitation to a Halloween party inspires
a number of ideas for a costume, but Calico Cat helps
him make the final decision.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) E Kea
The trip / Ezra Jack Keats.
New York : Greenwillow Books, c1978.
[36] p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 25 cm.
Lonely in a new neighborhood, Louie creates a magic
box from a shoebox and sees his old friends
trick-or-treating.
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Tumbling ghosts / Elizabeth Levy.
New York, NY : Scholastic, 1989.
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The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural
/ Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney.
New York : Scholastic Inc., c1992, (1993 printing).
A collection of ghost stories with African American
themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the
half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too
believable.
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Higbee's Halloween / by Robert Newton Peck.
New York : Walker, 1990.
101 p. ; 24 cm.
Life in quiet Clod's Corners changes drastically for
Higbee and his best friend Quincy when the very nasty
Striker kids move in and Higbee decides to make them
the target of a grand Halloween prank.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) Fic Whi
The chimney witches / Victoria Whitehead ; illustrated
by Linda North.
1st American ed.
New York : Orchard Books, 1987, c1986.
When eight-year-old Ellen meets the witches living in
the chimney of her house, she experiences the most
exciting Halloween of her life.
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Bradbury, Ray, 1920-
The Halloween tree. Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini.
[1st ed.]
New York, Knopf; [distributed by Random House, 1972]
145 p. illus. 24 cm.
A group of children and a "spirit" go back through time
to discover the beginnings of Halloween.
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The Ghost Squad and the Halloween conspiracy / by E.W.
Hildick.
1st ed.
New York : E.P. Dutton, c1985.
170 p. ; 22 cm.
Four young ghosts uncover a plot by a senator's stepson
to have his stepfather unwittingly pass out candy
embedded with needles at a Halloween party.
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Jenny Reen and the Jack Muh Lantern / written by Irene
Smalls ; illustrated by Keinyo White.
1st ed.
New York : Atheneum ;Books for Young Readers, 1996.
Sister Louisa, who cares for Jenny Reen while her parents
work in the field, warns the young slave girl about
a monster, known from long-told tales, who comes
out on Halloween.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) Fic Ham
Willie Bea and the time the Martians landed / Virginia
Hamilton.
1st ed.
New York : Greenwillow Books, c1983.
In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio,
a black family is caught up in the fear generated
by the Orson Welles "Martians have landed" broadcast.
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Folk Tales, games, etc.
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Jack-o'-lantern. Pictures by Paul Galdone.
New York, Seabury Press [1974]
[46] p. col. illus. 26 cm.
Retells the story of the first jack o'lantern, made
to light the way of Mean Jack who, unwanted in heaven
and hell, had to wander the earth for eternity.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) 394.2 McG
Squeals & squiggles & ghostly giggles. Illustrated by
Jeffrey Higginbottom.
New York, Four Winds Press [1973]
Spooky poems, limericks, games, stories, and tricks
for Halloween or year-round scares.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) 398.25 Has
The headless haunt and other African-American ghost
stories / collected and retold by James Haskins
illustrated by Ben Otero.
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