Books in Little Giants series

Ghosts, specters, and spooks—oh my! These scary, creepy, spine-chilling, and thrilling tales will turn Halloween into a real fright night—but they’re also great any time a kid craves a little hair-raising amusement. With more than 350 pages, there are plenty of otherwordly shivers to please any daring and wide-eyed young reader. Set sail in the dark Caribbean night to meet “The Phantom Schooner,” silent and dark and able to disappear before your very eyes. What’s terrifying the pup in “The Frightened Dog?” Could it be those bloodcurdling moans, whines, and wails coming from a creature in the woods? The story’s end will leave children stunned and wondering. Some of these bone-chillers are strange, some funny, and others just petrifying, but they’re all classics.

Kids will love it: here are more than 100 of the best word searches ever created! Each puzzle will entice young solvers with a clever title, and all the searches feature distinctive designs that fit the theme. For example “Hang in There” is shaped like a trapeze artist and includes things that might hang—like an ornament or your head. The words (approximately 25 per search) go vertically, horizontally, and diagonally; in an unusual touch, every word in a grid crosses at least one other, and all the words in a grid interconnect. And, as a bonus, every puzzle contains a hidden message—an answer to a punny riddle, a punch line to a silly joke—made up of the uncircled letters!