There’ll be a few goosebumps and smiles aplenty for kids who turn the pages of these picture books for All Hallow’s Eve.

For toddlers, nothing could charm or delight more than “Monster Halloween” (HarperFestival, $7.99) by Quentin. This riotously colorful board book is edged with orange -and-black plush fake fur that will invite handling and playing. With its rainbow-hued monsters holding pumpkin sacks, the cover would stand out on any book display.

Introducing a new Halloween word on each page, monsters cavort, pirouette, stampede and grin as they find bones, tricks, treats and sweets – among many things.

And even though they’re monsters, their activities bear a striking resemblance to childrens’. In the end, what do they do? They sleep. Decidedly not creepy, this is a very good book for putting small children to bed.

“Los Gatos Black on Halloween” (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, $16.95) offers chills, thrills and … giggles? Beginning eerily with scenes of spooks and other creepies, it ends on a startlingly humorous note that is as light as the beginning is dark.

Interspersed with simple Spanish words, with a glossary at the end, the text in verse by Marisa Montes is evocative and exciting. All the proper ingredients are introduced: medianoche (midnight), a monstrous ball and assortment of wolfmen.

The muted illustrations by Yuyi Morales are both haunted and haunting. Children will be mesmerized by their mysteriousness, but much too enchanted to be afraid of the ghostly images.

And then, in the final pages, all the monsters get their comeuppances and children rule. It is an unexpected but welcome vision.

In “Pumpkin Town!” (Houghton Mifflin Co., $16) a profusion of pumpkins invades a village, which finds residents up to their ears after an accidental overseeding. Pumpkin vines weave their way through houses and roofs, and pumpkins take over the roadways.

Leave it to five industrious brothers to rid the village of the disaster. And leave it to them to create a new one.

Katie McKy’s story is filled with witty touches. And Pablo Bernascone’s collage illustrations are so deft, so filled with unaccustomed colors, that the reader’s eyes cling to the pages.

The tongue-in-cheek ending is laughably foreboding, the perfect touch for this holiday’s uneasy feeling of anticipation.