Cute and softly spooky little board books for babies about Halloween, monsters and autumn. Love how gently the spooky season is introduced!
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse teach babies about El Dia de Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. (Not Halloween related, but takes place the following two days)
Disney Baby: Día de Los Muertos - by Nancy Parent (Board Book)
Usborne's new sound book for babies for the Halloween 2025 season.
Halloween Sound Book - (Sound Books) by Sam Taplin (Board Book)
I'm so glad to see shape books are coming back! This not-too-spooky Halloween board book is shaped like a pumpkin.
Richard Scarry's Halloween Cars and Trucks - (Chunky Book) (Board Book)
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This Elvira Mistress of the Dark baby book is so adorable, I can't stop giggling! Inside, there are cutely spooky vampires, monsters in cheerful settings. Colorful and cute.
Elvira's First Book of Monsters - (Board Book)
On Halloween, our favorite pug turns into a drooling monster!
Pig the Monster - (Pig the Pug) by Aaron Blabey (Board Book)
This adaptation of the classic "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" book is for older toddlers (not for babies who like to chew on the corners).
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - (Peanuts) by Charles M Schulz (Board Book)
This spooky board book features interactive sensory items, puns and rhymes.
I Love You, Spooky Boo! - (Punderland) by Rose Rossner (Board Book)
This rhyming book introduces little ones to Halloween gently, with leaf peeps and dressing up for trick-or-treating.
Happy Halloween Little One - (Welcome Little One Baby Gift Collection) by Sandra Magsamen (Board Book)
Here's a Halloween seek-and-find board book with tactile squishy monsters on the front that baby can touch and feel.
Ten Little Monsters (Little Squishies) - by Roger Priddy & Priddy Books (Board Book)
Here's The Very Hungry Caterpillar's take on the Halloween season, with a fun interactive Peekaboo Halloween board book.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Peekaboo Halloween - by Eric Carle (Board Book)
I'm an eldergoth grandma and I'm definitely getting this book for my granddaughter, who loves everything "spooky." This book has a heartwarming message, told in sweet rhymes.
I'll Love You Till the Bats Say Boo - by Kathryn Cristaldi (Board Book)
If you have a little one in your life who loves Bluey, here's a cute new Halloween book for them, featuring Bluey and Bingo in a spooky but not TOO scary situation.
Bluey and Bingo's Book of Scary Things - by Charlie Moon (Board Book)
Here's a very interactive touch-and-feel baby book based on my favorite movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas!
Disney Baby: 13 Days of Christmas: Touch-And-Feel, Lift-The-Flap Fun! - by Steven Davison & Carolyn Gardner (Board Book)
Here's a fun and lighthearted parody of the classic baby book Goodnight Moon. A witch tries to tidy up and get her household to bed!
Goodnight, Broom: A Spine-Tingling Spoof - by Deb Adamson (Board Book)
This little Halloween baby board book features a pop-up spooky surprise at the end. (In a good way).
There's a Little Ghost in Your Book - (Who's in Your Book?) by Tom Fletcher (Board Book)
This Halloween book's got it all! Touch and feel plus sound, and lots of cute Halloween things to look at, like a black cat, smiling jack o' lanterns, a cauldron full of candy, bats and more.
Noisy Halloween - (My First) by Hettie Cox (Board Book)
Here's a Halloween board book for older toddlers, in which five spooky skeletons go trick-or-treating on Hallowe'en night.
Spooky, Scary Skeletons - by Andrew Gold (Board Book)
Paw Patrol is still super popular, and here's their Halloween interactive lift-the-flap board book. Fun to peek inside with eager babies!
This Halloween board book is unusually tall/long. It features mummies, Dracula, ghosts and a little witch.
Ha Ha Halloween! - by Jill Howarth (Board Book)
Here's a Day of the Dead counting book in Spanish and English, a cute little board book for babies. Not Halloween related, but features cute sugar skulls and skeletons.
Día de Muertos: Números - by Duncan Tonatiuh (Board Book)
I don't personally care for these sound books as there is too much going on and it distracts from the reading. But at least the book is tactile, with tabs Baby can pull to see the next page. An adorable werewolf adorns the cover.
Little Wolf's Halloween - (10-Button Sound Books) by Maggie Fischer (Board Book)
If you're spooky and you know it, clap your .. paws? mummified hands? skeletal fingers? Here's a cute pumpkin shape book that you can sing along when reading the words to your little one.
If You're Spooky and You Know It (a Pumpkin-Shaped Novelty Board Book for Toddlers) - by Aly Fronis
You can't have a good Halloween baby board book without a black cat! Here's a cute shape book. Baby can hold onto kitty's ears!
Can You Find the Black Cat? - by Danielle McLean (Board Book)
This shiny, sparkly Halloween book will be so fun for babies to shake, look at and listen to this spooky season!
Sequin Shaker: Sweet as Halloween - by Editors of Silver Dolphin Books (Board Book)
Here's a fun Halloween board book that comes with a "magic flashlight" toddlers can use to look for Ghost's friends on every page.
I always smile when I read through Sandra Boynton books. The illustrations are so cute! This one features a chicken on the cover, saying "Eek! Halloween!"
Eek! Halloween! - (Boynton on Board) by Sandra Boynton (Board Book)
Here's a Halloween board book for toddlers and kids aged 3-6. Grumpkin the grumpy pumpkin just wants to leave the pumpkin patch and get away from fall, the season that annoys him!
Grumpkin - by Nicola Edwards (Board Book)
Lift-the-flap board books are really fun to explore with little ones. This one is "Spooky Surprise" featuring trick-or-treaters dressed as a cat, a dinosaur, a vampire and a witch.
Spooky Surprise: Lift-The-Flap Board Book
This adorable Halloween shape book features a cute haunted house. Shake the book to find out what the surprise is!
One Happy Haunted House - by Jeffrey Burton (Board Book)
This board book is layered - turn each page to see deeper inside the adventures of trick-or-treaters dressed up for Halloween.
It's Time for Halloween - (Layered View) (Board Book)
Every new babybat needs a Baby's First Halloween board book to nibble on!
Baby's First Halloween - by Cheryl Orsini (Board Book)
Here's the next book in the Baby and Cat series, "Cat's First Halloween." Sweet and simple, with short rhymes.
Cat's First Halloween - (Dog and Cat's First) by Natalie Nelson (Board Book)
This Halloween board book celebrates friendship, with zombies, ghosts, skeletons and witches.
All Kinds of Spooky: A Spook-Tacular Story of Friendship - by Igloobooks (Board Book)
Little Pumpkin goes on a trick-or-treating adventure. The front of this board book is embroidered for baby's tactile sense.
Trick or Treat - by Elena Rodgers (Board Book)
This lift-the-flap Halloween board book stars Little Witch, who goes on a hunt for Halloween treats.
The Great Big Halloween Hunt - (Great Big Hunt) (Board Book)
It will be so fun to see a baby squeal when they push the skeleton on the cover to make this board book squeak! So cute.
Squeeze & Squeak: Hide and Squeak! - by Maggie Fischer (Board Book)
Ok, this board book isn't about Halloween, but the spooky season goes hand in hand with Day of the Dead. Colorfully illustrated!
It's Time for Día de Los Muertos - by Lilibeth M Jimenez (Board Book)
In this board book for babies, Count Derek, a vampire, moves to a new castle. He has trouble making friends because people think he's strange.
Not-So-Bad Guys Vampire! - by Michael Buxton (Board Book)
You can easily get a baby to giggle by showing them a googly eyed board book. This one is a Halloween story featuring a kitty and other Halloween trick-or-treat visitors.
Here's another interactive Halloween lift-the-flap board book. In this one, you reveal who is hiding under their trick-or-treat costumes.
Who's Hiding at Halloween? - (Campbell Axel Scheffler) by Campbell Books (Board Book)
This Halloween board book features spooky characters with really, really big eyes. There's Frankenstein's monster, a witch, a mummy, a skeleton, and a werewolf, among others.
Trick or Treat - (Board Book)
This Halloween board book features cute monsters. Pull and slide to see more of them!
Boo! (Slide & Surprise) - (Slide & Surprise!) by Roger Priddy (Board Book)
This board book plays sounds if baby can manage to push the buttons. It's a gentle introduction to Halloween and the festive candy season.
Trick or Treat - by Rosa Von Feder (Board Book)
This Halloween board book is padded, so it's extra soft when baby's chubby hands holds it. Don't you wish every day was Halloween? I do!
If Every Day Was Halloween: Padded Board Book - (Story Time) by Em Bruce
This "Where's the Witch?" Halloween book is meant for baby to play with it while in their stroller. There's five pages with felt flaps baby can touch.
Where's the Witch?: A Stroller Book - (Board Book)
This charming book offers 24 flaps featuring spooky Halloween characters that baby can seek and find.
Countdown to Halloween - by Andrea Mills (Board Book)
This sing-song Halloween book is similar to the classic "This little piggy went to market" song. In this case, it's: "This little monster went to the market. This little monster stayed home." etcetera.
This Little Monster - by Dori Elys (Board Book)
Here's a touch-and-feel Halloween board book featuring silly hairdos (and eyebrows!) on spooky-cute creatures.
Hairy Scary Halloween - by Becky Davies (Board Book)
Toddlers can use this Halloween monster mix and match book to create their own monster, by flipping various parts of the pages. So silly!
Monster Mix & Match - by Edward Miller (Board Book)
This board book isn't about Halloween, but it is about a very scary kitten and it takes place in a haunted house. Close enough!
The Scariest Kitten in the World - by Kate Messner (Board Book)
This book about ghosts and ghouls is for older toddlers, who can embark on a creepy quest along with the creatures.
Ghosts and Ghouls - by Ondrej Navratil (Board Book)
This board book offers punny Halloween poems. It's for older toddlers (3-6).
Skeleton Bones and Goblin Groans - by Amy E Sklansky (Board Book)
I included this darling board book even though it's not specifically Halloween-themed. Belch is the littlest monster, and she doesn't want to go to bed! Set in a haunted house, of course.
Little Monster - (Ten Minutes to Bed) by Rhiannon Fielding (Board Book)
It will be fun to play Tickle the Ghost with you wee one. It's an interactive Halloween board book sure to produce giggles.
Can You Tickle a Ghost? - (Tickle Books) by Bobbie Brooks (Board Book)