Here in New England, the signs are all around. Leaves are floating down and starting to rustle across the streets. Storefronts are starting to fill up with spooky stuff. It all means just one thing to kids – Halloween is around the corner.
So what’s on your playlist this October? Do you have a sufficiently spooky audiobook going, to set the tone for the season? Here are a few Read, Kids, Read! recommendations to get you started. Note that these are for the older set, really quite scary in the case of the Neil Gaiman books, and definitely not for the sensitive. My boys, who have overactive imaginations, refused point-blank to listen to the latter two, but I hope that one day they will. These books are perfect for the season and just superbly read out aloud, each one.
If your children have a robust fright-tolerance, are spending a lot of time commuting to school and activities, or have a road trip coming up, I have some reviews for you. In order of increasing spookiness, they are:
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Access: The links above are through Audible at Amazon.com. Depending upon where you live in the world, you can likely also access these for free through your public library and other resources that I am blogging about, like Hoopla.
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