He frequently visits schools and his highly participatory presentations are a blast for kids and teachers alike.

And then there are middle grade and YA novels for teens that you can hand them and send them off on their way, possibly with a nightlight. Aaron Reynolds is a New York Times Bestselling Author of many highly acclaimed books for kids, including Dude, Creepy Carrots, Creepy Pair of Underwear, Nerdy Birdy, and tons more. Jasper must find a way to get rid of his creepy carrots once and for all. That is, until they start following him around Jasper tries to prove to his parents that creepy carrots are following him, but the carrots always seem to disappear at the last minute. There are the classics - books that you might remember reading with your own friends around campfires and on Halloween nights - that are just as scary today as they were when you first red them. Jasper Rabbit loves nothing more than eating carrots all day. Others are designed for kids who are just learning to read on their own, with can't-put-them-down plots that'll make them forget all about their kid tablets. Some of them are not-so-scary, giving little ones some tiny tastes of thrills tempered with lots of silliness and humor. These scary books for kids can make a horror fan out of anyone. Before reading, you can set the mood by dimming the lights and inviting students to sit around a makeshift cauldron or something else just as creepy, if they dare. And while you don't really want your kids to shiver in their beds all night, there's something thrilling about giving them that chills-down-their spine experience, too. Reading books like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Creepy Carrots aloud to your class is a great way to get students in the spooky spirit. It's those kinds of thrills, the ones that you create for yourself, that really crawl under your skin, make you look over your shoulder every five seconds and have you triple-checking the locks before you go to bed. What You Need to Know: Creepy Carrots is a funny and spooky read, just in time for Halloween. Melissa Young from Sweet on Books shares more about this (not too) haunted veggie tale.

When it comes to being scared, there's something bookworms understand: The images you conjure up in your head when you're reading are much, much scarier than any scary movie you can watch on a screen. Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds is a funny and spooky Halloween book for kids to read.

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