Happy fall, friends! With Halloween just around the corner and the fate of trick or treating up in the air, you may be searching for other ways to celebrate the change of the seasons with your family. Please enjoy our list of recommendations for several age groups below. We hope these books help get you in the spooky spirit, celebrate thankfulness, or even give you some fun at-home costume ideas. Planning to dress up as a book character this year? Tag us at @oldtownbooks; we can’t wait to see!

Board Books:

• Feast for 10 by Cathryn Falwell

• EEK! Halloween! by Sandra Boynton

• In the Middle of Fall by Kevin Henkes

• Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

• Happy Halloween from the Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

Picture Books:

• Pete the Cat: Falling for Autumn by Kimberly & James Dean

• We’re Going on a Goon Hunt by Michael Rex

• Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown

• The Widow’s Broom by Chris van Allsburg

• Gustavo the Shy Ghost by Flavia Z. Drago

Middle-Grade Chapter Books:

• Witches of Brooklyn by Sophie Escabasse

• Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe

• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

• The Witches by Roald Dahl

Blog contribution, additional photos, and editing by Shannon McCarthy.