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10 best books like Monster Museum (Marilyn Singer): Boris and Bella, How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?, Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep, Humbug Witch, We're Off to Find the Witch's House, Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes II, Frankenstein Takes the Cake, Grimericks, Sipping Spiders Through A Straw: Campfire Songs For Monsters, Los Gatos Black on Halloween

Boris and Bella
AuthorCarolyn Crimi
ISBN0152059008
“Boris and Bella” is a spooky Halloween book by Carolyn Crimi along with illustrations by Gris Grimly about two monsters, Boris and Bella, who are extremely different from each other as Boris is the monster who loves to be tidy while Bella is the monster who loves to be messy. When their friends ended...
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?
AuthorMargaret McNamara
ISBN0375840141
For curious kids, this explores skip counting and estimation in a fun pumpkin-themed classroom experiment. "How many seeds are in a pumpkin?" Mr. Tiffin asks his class as they gather around the big, medium, and small pumpkins on his desk. Robert, the biggest kid, guesses that the largest one has a million...
Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0688840531
"A dozen original poems on the `horrifying' subjects (ghouls, vampires, skeletons, etc.) so dear to many young hearts....Your steel-nerved patrons will appreciate both poems and pictures."--School Library Journal..
Humbug Witch
AuthorLorna Balian
Originally published in 1965 (my edition is a reprint from Abingdon Press, put out in 1985), Humbug Witch is a charming little vintage picture-book, following the trials and tribulations of a witch who just can't seem to do anything right. Although she looks the part, with her big nose, crooked teeth,...
We're Off to Find the Witch's House
AuthorRichard Krieb
ISBN0142408549
It?s Halloween night, and as the moon rises, four children set off to find the witch?s house. on their way they encounter a host of silly, spooky characters, from a skittle-skattling skeleton to a shirking, lurking Dracula. Can they make it all the way to the witch?s house? or will their fears get the best...
Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes II
AuthorGris Grimly
ISBN0972938834
This entertaining collection unveils eight allnew, fiendishly illustrated cautionary tales exploring the dark underbelly of childhood. Childhood standards, including Little Jack Horner, Solomon Grundy and Three Blind Mice, are retold as dark and sinister rhymes about atrociouslymannered...
Frankenstein Takes the Cake
AuthorAdam Rex
ISBN0152062351
No one ever said it was easy being a monster. Take Frankenstein, for instance: He just wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man, Dracula, is freaking out about the garlic bread. Then there’s the Headless Horseman, who wishes everyone would stop drooling over his delicious pumpkin...
Grimericks
AuthorSusan Pearson
ISBN0761452303
Though none of the subjects in these limericks grimericks are from Nantucket,
(most of them appear to be from the cemetery)
you'll enjoy spending quality time with these rhymes.
(And eye-balling Grimly's mini-masterpieces, done in the most putrid shades of graveyard-gray and slimy...
Sipping Spiders Through A Straw: Campfire Songs For Monsters
AuthorKelly DiPucchio
ISBN0439584019
A delightfully chilling musical romp through the gross and gory world of campfire songs!

In this howlishly fun collection of campfire songs, little monsters everywhere will love singing along to their favorite campfire tunes which have been altered for optimal gross-out effect by the ghoulish...
Los Gatos Black on Halloween
AuthorMarisa Montes
ISBN0805074295
Follow los monstruos and los esqueletos to the Halloween party

Under October's luna, full and bright, the monsters are throwing a ball in the Haunted Hall. Las brujas come on their broomsticks. Los muertos rise from their coffins to join in the fun. Los esqueletos rattle their bones as they...
AlphaOops: H Is for Halloween
AuthorAlethea Kontis
ISBN0763639664
H gets top billing — but a stubborn B has something scary to say — as the inside-out alphabet gives a howl-arious Halloween performance.

Ack! It’s time for the show, and A isn’t ready. But then again, Halloween can only start with one letter, no matter how the A-B-Cs normally go! The misbehaving...
I'm Not Afraid of This Haunted House
AuthorLaurie B. Friedman
ISBN1575057514
I LOVE this story about Simon Lester Henry Strauss who is not afraid of a Haunted House. It is told in rhyme and it’s a story for beginners and kids who like some creepy in their story. The artwork is amazing. Everyone’s eyes look so suspect. You can’t trust all the yes in the Haunted house. All of Simon’s...
Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building
AuthorChristy Hale
ISBN1600606512
The spreads with the drawing of children 'playing at' building on the left, and a photograph of a recognized building on the other, is very effective. Children's imaginations will surely be stimulated as they see what can develop from small starts.

The concrete poetic text is a wonderful bonus...
Dear Vampa
AuthorRoss Collins
ISBN0061355348
The Pires are cursed with new neighbors. Things were just fine on Nostfer Avenue until the Wolfsons arrived. There seems to be no end to the new family's strange rituals. They stay up all day long, lock their windows at night, and bathe—in sunshine. What's a nice vampire family to do?

Ross Collins...
Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance
AuthorKeith Graves
ISBN0811821692
Frank was a monster who wanted to dance. So he put on his hat, and his shoes made in France...and opened a jar and put ants in his pants! So begins this monstrously funny, deliciously disgusting, horrifyingly hilarious story of a monster who follows his dream. Keith Graves' wacky illustrations and laugh-out-loud...
Vunce Upon a Time
AuthorJ. Otto Seibold
ISBN0811862712
Vunce Upon A Time is all sorts of adorable. This unique picture book pairs Siobhan Vivian's brilliant illustrations with a story from one of my favorite authors, J. Otto Seibold. If you haven't had a chance to dive into any of Siebold's other stories I'll give you a quick sum up. They are always quirky,...
Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden
AuthorGeorge Levenson
ISBN1582460787
We can be sure of this: It's a circle without end. It'¬?s pumpkin seeds to pumpkins To pumpkin seeds again! This treat of a picture book comes cloaked in the colors of fall. Bouncy verse and glowing photographs show a backyard pumpkin patch move through its natural cycle -- a bug'¬?s eye and a bird's high...
A Job for Wittilda
AuthorCaralyn Buehner
ISBN0142401374
When you're a witch with 47 cats and are down to your last dried rat, it's time to get out the want ads. Wittilda's attempt to work at a beauty shop ends in disaster, so she goes to Dingaling Pizza, where the applicants are told, "'Five pizzas each to deliver. The first one back gets the job!'" Wittilda balances...
The Prince's New Pet
AuthorBrian Anderson
ISBN1596433574

The Prince's birthday was just like every other day in his father's kingdom-drab, gloomy, and completely colorless. Years ago the Prince's father had banned all color from the kingdom, so the Prince now received the same gray gifts wrapped in the same gray paper and ate the same gray birthday cake,...
Spooky Hour
AuthorTony Mitton
ISBN0439603730
From the creators of DINOSAURUMPUS! comes their new Halloween picture book about counting.

"Listen! Hush! Oooh, what's that sound? The midnight spooks are coming round." Tony Mitton and Guy Parker-Rees team up again to create another fun-filled book. Halloween is the setting as kids rhyme...
The Neighborhood Mother Goose
AuthorNina Crews
ISBN0060515732
Every day, children the world over sing, shout, and celebrate Mother Goose rhymes. And now there's a new reason to cheer: Nina Crews has added her own remarkable, jazzy style of illustration to a collection of forty-one favorite verses. Whether it's Jack jumping over a candlestick (atop a cupcake),...
The Evil Garden
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0764958852
Great-Uncle Franz, beside the lake,
Is being strangled by a snake. The peaches, apples, plums, and pears
Are guarded by ferocious bears.Alexa watches while her aunt
Is pulled feet first inside a plant.A happy, naive family enters the Evil Garden (free admission!) to spend a sunny afternoon...
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