Halloween-friendly (ages 2-8)

A Nepalese tale in which a lazy boy who's cast out of his home by his exasperated mother reaps rewards during an encounter with an abominable snowman.

A little girl comes home after school and finds a monster in the house.

Amanda the pig sees monsters at night, but her parents and her brother find different ways to convince her that there are no monsters.

When young monster Harvey hears his parents refer to the new baby they are expecting as "another mouth to feed," he imagines his new sibling as an enormous mouth--and nothing else.

Asiago the vampire makes a big mistake when he joins his friends Wendy, Tom, and Sam at the beach one day and gets a terrible sunburn, a splinter in his foot, and eats too many clams with garlic.

Miss Cora Lee Merriweather haunts her bake shop after her death, until the new shop owner makes a deal with her.

As your bath water drains down the plughole, that slurping sound is the Bath Monster: dirty bath water is his second favorite food. No one wants to find out what his first is, until Jackson decides he doesn't believe in the Bath Monster any more, and he's never going to have a bath again.

On a night when the moon can grow no fatter, bats pack their moon-tan lotion and baskets of treats and fly off for some fun on the beach.

A group of bats fly into the library through an open window and have all kinds of after-hours fun. The little ones play at the water fountain and copy machine before they settle down for a magical story hour that includes the 'batification' of many children's classics.