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She Wanted to Be Haunted
By Marcus Ewert
Illustrated by Susie Ghahremani
New York: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2020. Picture Book.

Clarisa, an adorable pink cottage, wants nothing more than to be haunted, but her attempts only make her cuter until she tries being herself and is pleasantly surprised. --Editor

By Oliver Jeffers
New York: Philomel Books, 2021. Picture Book.

A young girl lives in a haunted house, but she has never seen a ghost. Are they white with holes for eyes? Are they hard to see? Step inside and help the girl as she searches under the stairs, behind the sofa, and in the attic for the ghost. --Publisher

By Jennifer Marino Walters
Illustrated by Nathan Y. Jarvis
Egremont, MA: Red Chair Press, 2020. Picture Book.

A lively illustrated walk through a spooky fun Halloween Haunted House to discover the alphabet along the way. --Publisher

By Ammi-Joan Paquette
Illustrated by Adam Record
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2013. Picture Book.

Slip-sliding his way through a haunted house, a little ghost is joined by a shuffling mummy, a happy little monster, and other ghoulish friends before discovering the scariest creature in the house. --Editor

By Jennifer O'Connell
New York: Scholastic, 2000. Picture Book.

A witch tries to scare ten ghosts out of the haunted house where they live, but in the end, they play a trick on her. --Editor

By Frank Tupta
Illustrated by Kyle Beckett
New York: Two Lions, 2020. Picture Book.

Past the graveyard, hear the howl of werewolf loggers on the prowl. In this spooky, rhyming romp, creatures of all types work together to build a haunted house for a vampire family in need of a home. From mummies to Cyclops to the skeleton crew, they're all working hard to get the job done. But they'd better hurry, because the house needs to be finished before the sun comes up. It's a good thing their foreman, Frankenstein, is here to keep everyone in check. Will they get it done in time? --Editor

By Jessie Sima
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021. Picture Book.

When a house believes she is haunted, she tries everything in her power to stop it in order to get people to move in--until she realizes that she is fine just the way she is. --Editor

By Kate Messner
Illustrated by MacKenzie Haley
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023. Picture Book.

This laugh-out-loud picture book takes readers to a just-PURR-fect haunted house where they'll meet a not-so-scary kitten and a collection of the cutest little critters anyone has ever seen. --Publisher

By Jarrett Dapier
Illustrated by Lee Gatlin
New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2022. Picture Book.

A band of skeleton drummers takes a haunted tour of the White House during a Halloween celebration, discovering the many ghosts that roam its halls. --Editor

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