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Skulls!
Written by Blair Thornburgh
Illustrated by Scott Campbell
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019. Picture Book. 

A non-fiction picture book about skulls, and all the things they are good for. --Publisher

How to Make Friends With a Ghost
By Rebecca Green
New York: Tundra Books, 2017. Picture Book.

What do you do when you meet a ghost? One: Provide the ghost with some of its favorite snacks, like mud tarts and earwax truffles. Two: Tell your ghost bedtime stories (ghosts love to be read to). Three: Make sure no one mistakes your ghost for whipped cream or a marshmallow when you aren't looking! If you follow these few simple steps and the rest of the essential tips in How to Make Friends with a Ghost, you'll see how a ghost friend will lovingly grow up and grow old with you. --Editor

By Jimmy Pickering
New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007. Picture Book.

Skelly the skeleton girl finds a bone lying on the floor of her house and wonders where it came from, and when she finally finds the answer she is pleasantly surprised. --Editor

Written by Eve Bunting
Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully
Boston: Clarion Books, 2012. Picture Book.

Young Maeve feels a strong connection to the mysterious, mummified body of a young girl that her grandfather uncovers while cutting turf in an Irish bog. Includes facts about bogs and the mummies that have been found in them.--Publisher

Written by Teresa Bateman
Illustrated by  Kenneth Kit Lamug
Chicago, IL: Albert Whitman & Company, 2019. Picture Book.

Old Dave ignores strange noises he hears in the lonely old cottage he inherited from his uncle, except the voice telling him there are ghastly ghosts in the coal shed. --Editor

Written by Julius Lester
Illustrated by Geraldo Valério
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2009. Picture Book.

A resourceful young boy tries to help three hungry ghosts find something to eat. --Editor

Written by Gideon Sterer
Illustrated by Charles Santoso
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2023. Picture Book.

A young boy heads into the woods to read bedtime stories to vampires, witches, skeletons, and other kinds of monsters who have no one to help them to sleep. --Publisher








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