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Suggested Scary and Spooky Stories for Kindergarten

 

Ready for goosebumps and crazy creatures? Here's a collection of spooky stories featuring unexpected creatures and adventures. Books are suggested for Kindergarten readers and listeners, but remember that each child is different and might find something interesting at another level.

Black dog by Levi Pinfold

The Hope family spots a large black dog outside of their home, and Small, the youngest member of the family, is the only one brave enough to face the dog.

The Cyclops Witch never backs down from adventure or the medley of monsters she meets along the way. But one spooky night, the only thing in the world that gives her the heebie-jeebies walks right up to her door--and it's not what you're expecting.

The dark by Lemony Snicket

Laszlo is afraid of the dark which lives in the same big, creaky house as him, until one night the dark pays him a visit.

The Elephantom by illustrator Ross Collins

When an uninvited, ghostly elephant turns up and begins getting a little girl into trouble, the child's grandmother, who has endured her own menagerie of phantom pets, refers her to a helpful ghostly shopkeeper

Ghosts in the house! by Kazuno Kohara

Tired of living in a haunted house, a young witch captures, washes, and turns her pesky ghosts into curtains and a tablecloth.

The gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

A clever mouse uses the threat of a terrifying creature to keep from being eaten by a fox, an owl, and a snake, only to have to outwit that creature as well.

Gustavo, the shy ghost by Flavia Z. Drago

A shy ghost who can walk through walls and glow in the dark pursues a secret love for playing the violin while trying to bond with monster friends who cannot see him, before the Day of the Dead inspires him to share something he loves.

As Little Ghost searches the night for her lost "boo," her animal friends offer to lend their sounds but she will need the reader's help to find her special sound

Sir Simon : super scarer by illustrator Cale Atkinson

Meet Sir Simon, Super Scarer. He's a professional ghost who has been transferred to his first house. And just in time! He was getting tired of haunting bus stops and forests and potatoes. And to top it off, this house is occupied by an old lady - they're the easiest to haunt! But things don't go as planned when it turns out a KID comes with this old lady.

Scarlet the vampire and Igor the mummy are friends, even though they can never agree on what they want to do or anything else--except that they are best friends.