This one is a good option if you are looking for books that aren't Halloween, but still invoke the season.
Barn Dance!
Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
illustrated by Ted Rand 1986
The farmer's son "with questions in his head, much too full of wonderment to spend the night in bed, He was up about an' list'nin'..."
When the night owl said,
Come a little closer...
Come a little closer...
Listen to the night...
There's magic in the air...
There's magic in the air indeed! The scarecrow "with a fiddle underneath his chin" has called up all the farmyard animals to a right proper barn dance. Not only does the farmer's son watch all the turkeys and mules and pigs dancing round, he becomes part of the hoedown himself! The rhyming text is fun to read aloud and Rand's colorful barn dance pictures contrast with the quiet moonlight shadows outside.
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