Spooky Story Time & Costume Parade

Join us Saturday, October 29th at 11 AM as we celebrate Halloween with our littlest readers! We'll be reading some spooky (but not too spooky!) Halloween stories. Check out some of our favorites below.

Come in costume for a costume parade after story time. 

We will have lots of fun giveaways including Trick or Treat for Books! Each kiddo will go home with a free book from Nowhere Bookshop.

Can't make the story time, we will have books available for giveaway until supplies run out so stop by later in the weekend or on Halloween itself!

 

Event date: 
Saturday, October 29, 2022 - 11:00am
Countdown to Halloween By Greg Paprocki (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Greg Paprocki (Illustrator)
$12.99
ISBN: 9781423661436
Availability: Title is backordered. It could take two to six weeks to ship.
Published: Babylit - July 5th, 2022

Brimming with Halloween excitement, each spread of this charming primer invites toddlers to find and count objects hidden in just-spooky-enough scenes of fall fun.


Beatrice Likes the Dark By April Genevieve Tucholke, Khoa Le (Illustrator) Cover Image
By April Genevieve Tucholke, Khoa Le (Illustrator)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781643751573
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Algonquin Young Readers - September 13th, 2022

Beatrice likes the dark. She likes black clothes, graveyard picnics, and a sky full of stars. Her sister, Roo, likes the light. She likes bright clothes, picking strawberries, and hot, sunny days. Beatrice and Roo are nothing alike and don’t understand each other. Can Beatrice help Roo love the dark as much as she does? Can Roo help Beatrice love the light?


No Such Thing By Ella Bailey Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781838741075
Availability: Available at wholesaler. We can order it for you.
Published: Flying Eye Books - August 16th, 2022

One cool day in late October, Georgia noticed something weird. Objects would move around the house and sometimes they even disappeared. Now, some people may have wondered (especially at this time of year) if this was the work of something spooky? But not clever Georgia! She has all the explanations and none of the fear!


The Crayons Trick or Treat By Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator)
$9.99
ISBN: 9780593621028
Availability: Available at wholesaler. We can order it for you.
Published: Philomel Books - September 6th, 2022

The hilarious crayons from the #1 New York Times bestselling The Day The Crayons Quit are ready to celebrate Halloween!


Vampenguin By Lucy Ruth Cummins, Lucy Ruth Cummins (Illustrator) Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781534466982
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - July 20th, 2021

From the critically acclaimed author and illustrator of A Hungry Lion and Stumpkin comes a charming, wryly humorous story of adventure, mistaken identity, and a vampire family’s day at the zoo.

On a Saturday morning, baby Dracula visits the zoo with his family, where baby Penguin lives with hers.


Little Pumpkin: A First Halloween Story (You are the Light #2) By Lisa Edwards, Kat Kalindi (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Lisa Edwards, Kat Kalindi (Illustrator)
$7.99
ISBN: 9780593465189
Availability: Available at wholesaler. We can order it for you.
Published: Viking Books for Young Readers - August 23rd, 2022

Follow Little Pumpkin as she and Big Pumpkin prepare for a fun night with their fall friends!

With gentle, rhyming text, Little Pumpkin is perfect for the smallest readers to celebrate fall. While exploring the love between a parent and child, this board book is an excellent expression of love with a unique fall theme.


Creepy Crayon! (Creepy Tales!) By Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illustrator)
$18.99
ISBN: 9781534465886
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - August 23rd, 2022

A #1 New York Times bestseller!

From the team behind the New York Times bestselling Creepy Carrots! and Creepy Pair of Underwear! comes the third in this hilariously spooky series about a young rabbit and his peculiar encounters—featuring a sinister crayon!

Jasper Rabbit has a problem: he is NOT doing well in school.