If your three- or four-year-old gets nervous the moment fake cobwebs and giant skeletons show up on neighborhood lawns, Rebecca Pettiford's Halloween offers a practical, low-stakes baseline. It breaks down the holiday into simple, concrete steps: choosing costumes, carving pumpkins, decorating, and walking the block for treats.

Because it comes from the Bullfrog Books early reader series, expect functional, repetitive sentences paired with bright stock photography rather than an inventive story. It does not try to entertain an older kid, but it handles holiday orientation for the preschool set without introducing anything that might trigger bedtime worries.