The Best Skeleton Books for Kids

Three skeletons climb out of a dark cellar looking for somebody to frighten, and the whole town has already gone to bed.

Two aliens with a broken spaceship need a hand, and discover how much has to be stacked up to build one.

Where the dancing skeletons of Día de los Muertos came from, and the printmaker who drew them into existence.

Everyone you have ever met was wearing one, and it has been quietly doing you favors your entire life.

A case of the hiccups rattles a skeleton straight through his shower, his breakfast, and his skateboard ride.

A pirate skeleton hunts for its scattered bones beneath the waves.

A young skeleton keeps shedding bones at the worst possible moments, and the first day of school is days away.

The ruler of Halloween Town stumbles onto Christmas and decides, disastrously, to run it himself.

Two hundred and six bones, plus the ligaments, joints, and cartilage holding them together, all at work right now.

A boy and his ghost dog face rowdy skeletons on Halloween night.

A class tour of a costume factory turns strange when the same skeleton keeps appearing one room ahead of them.

The skeleton from the school nurse’s office vanishes overnight, and odd clues start turning up down every hallway.

A skeleton dug up after four centuries wakes speaking in verse and desperate for a friend, and the dog who unearthed him only wants a snack.