Mouse’s First Halloween: by Lauren Thompson

Five Little Pumpkins: by Dan Yaccarino

Julius’ Candy Corn: by Kevin Henkes

Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by L. Williams

Pumpkin, pumpkin: by Jeanne Titherington

What will you be for Halloween? By Mark Todd

Other books you may enjoy sharing:

It's Pumpkin Time: by Zoe Hall

Halloween Monster: Catherine Stock

Pumpkin Faces: by Emma Rose

Halloween Mice: by Bethany Roberts

Jack-O-Lanterns: by Lola Schaefer

Halloween Day: by Anne Rockwell

The Halloween Play: by Felicia Bond

Corduroy's Halloween: by B.G. Hennessy

Sheep Trick or Treat: by Nancy Shaw

Hallo-Wiener: by Dav Pilkey

When the Goblins Came Knocking: by Anna Hines

Creepy Crawly Critters: by Nola Buck

House that Drac built: by Judy Sierra

Beneath the ghost moon: by Jane Yolen

Popcorn: by Frank Asch

Pumpkin light: by David Ray

The Vanishing Pumpkin: by Tony Johnston

The biggest pumpkin ever: by Steven Kroll

Mousekin's golden house: by Edna Keller

Apples and pumpkins: by Anne Rockwell

Pumpkinville mystery: by Bruce Cole

Six creepy sheep: by Judith Enderle

Arthur's Halloween: by Marc Brown

Too much trick or treat: by Jayna Miller

Big pumpkin: by Erica Silverman

Old Devil Wind: by Bill Martin Jr.

Clifford's Halloween: by Norman Bridwell

A Halloween happening: by Adrienne Adams

Georgie's Halloween: by Robert Bright

Scary Scary Halloween: by Eve Bunting

Harriets Halloween candy: by Nancy Carlson

Dinosaur's Halloween: by Liza Donnelly

Halloween parade: by Mary Lystad

Pumpkin people: by David Cavagnaro

Pumpkin personalities: by Ruth Kate

Very Scary: by Tony Johnston

Songs and rhymes we shared:

Five Little Pumpkins (count on fingers)

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate

The first one said "Oh my! It's getting late!"

The second one said "There are witches* in the air!"

The third one said "But we don't care!"

The fourth one said "Let's run and run and run!"

The fifth one said "It's Halloween fun!"

Then OOOOOOO went the wind  (make noise like the wind)

And out went the lights  (clap hands on "out")

And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight  (roll hands)

                        * you may substitute "spooks" or "goblins"

Black cat, black cat up in the tree  (Look up)

Black cat, black cat staring at me  (circle hands around eyes)

Black cat, black cat come down from there  (shake finger)

Black cat, black cat you gave me a scare!  (put hands on hips and shake head)

 Count the Pumpkins

A little pumpkin (make a small circle )

A middle sized pumpkin (a larger circle)

A great big pumpkin I see (biggest circle)

for "witches" Now let's count all the pumpkins

1 2 3! (make 3 circles again)

Little Ghost (act out rhyme)

Little ghost, little ghost, flying through the air

Little ghost, little ghost, tickling my hair

Little ghost, little ghost, flying way down low

Little ghost, little ghost, tickling my toe

Little ghost, little ghost, circling all around

Little ghost, little ghost, please sit down

I'm a Little Pumpkin (sing to "I'm a little teapot")

I'm a little pumpkin orange and bright

You'll see me out on Halloween night

Carve me a face and add a light

I'll glow and glow throughout the night

Toasted Pumpkin Seeds:

1. In bowl combine 2 c. pumpkin seeds, 1 1/2 tbsp. cooking oil,
melted butter or margarine, 1 1/4 tsp. salt, until seeds are coated.

2. Spread on large shallow baking pan.

3. Bake at 250 degrees approximately 1 hour, stirring occasionally until crisp,
dry and golden brown.