Dress up as your favorite book character and have a Happy Bookish Halloween! How about one of these book character costume ideas from the favorite children’s picture and chapter books?
I’ve linked to many costumes you can buy and some you can make. Hopefully, this list will inspire you to find a fun book costume that works for you!
Favorite Book Character Costumes
The Mad Hatter unisex child
Cat in the Hat
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie Brown (DIY Charlie Brown here)
Cow (Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type)
Crayon (The Day the Crayons Quit) DIY Crayon Costume
Curious George 
Dragon (Dragons Love Tacos, Puff the Magic Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon, Eragon)
Dr. Seuss Characters:
The Cat in the Hat child / adult
Fairy Tales:
Sleeping Beauty / Prince Philip
Goldilocks & the ThreeBears
The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings
How to Train Your Dragon
Hunger Games
Knight toddler, child (King Arthur, The Knight and the Dragon, St. George & the Dragon)
Ladybug Girl
Magic Tree House Jack and Annie
Max (Where the Wild Things Are
Miss Frizzle from The Magic School Bus
Nursery Rhymes:
Pete the Cat (DIY)
Martin the Warrior from Redwall
& 
Wizard of Oz:
What other costume ideas do you have?
also read –> PICTURE BOOK CHARACTER COSTUMES
also read –> Book Character Costumes for Kids and Tweens
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Jen says
Pippi Longstocking! I dress up as her a lot for Halloween and have won a lot of costume contests with this character. The kids love it too! I have red hair so I started using this costume in second grade and have continued to use it every few years now that I work with kids. 🙂
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Rashmie @MommyLabs says
These are all wonderful ideas! I have been planning to do something fun for my daughter. These will be helpful.
I was also thinking of:
– Letters climbing up the coconut tree – from Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
– Max in his wolf suit – from ‘Where the Wild things are’
– Ganesha the Elephant God – from Indian mythology tales
– Kali the blood sucking Goddess – again from Indian mythology
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Angela says
Olivia the Pig – my daughter dressed up today for their character parade and won best look alike for the 2nd grade. Very different!
lilfoster411 says
How about Grace
jaiden says
how about david from the books by david shannon
candicelarsen says
My kids dressed up as Dr. Seuss characters all 6 of them. Lion Ten apples up on top, cindy lou who, sam I am, Daisy-Head Mayzie, A Sneetch, Red Fish. I wish I could send a picture but I do not know how!
Cat Wagman says
I remember making a spider costume that was used for several Halloweens by both of my sons, Devin and Bernie … my old black leotard from Modern Dance, a cap/mask with the eight eyes, and extra legs sewn to the sides, with monofilament fishing line attached at the elbows and running down through the extra legs at the “knees,” so when the boys raised their arms, the extra legs would follow.
Well, back in the day when I did substitute teaching, the school was having a book character parade around Halloween … so, yes, I wore that spider costume to represent Charlotte from Charlotte’s web. My class and the teachers love my enthusiasm and willingness to play the part … I’ve always been a kid at heart, who loves to read!
Melissa Taylor says
These are AWESOME suggestions! You’re all so well read. Impressive. Thanks everyone!
RobbieLee at Chickiedee says
How about The Stinky Cheese Man?
michel says
pohh, piglet, eyeore, tiiger, Roo
michele says
paddington
Jo Dickson says
Skippy Jon Jones
Jeanne says
Martin the Warrior or Mathias (Redwall)
Ellen says
Ladybug Girl
Ladybug Girl & Bumblebee Boy
Staff from Koelbel Library says
And another:
Angelina Ballerina
Staff from Koelbel Library says
Ok, so here are some of the ones that we thought up (possibly more to come!):
-Waldo from Where’s Waldo
-Harriet the Spy
-Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, The Mad Hatter (etc)
-Eloise
-Amelia Bedelia
-Ramona
-Any of the American Girls
-Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys
-Any of the characters from the Little House on the Prairie series
-Any of the characters from the Arthur books
-Ms Frizzle from the Magic School Bus books
-Jack and Annie from the Magic Tree House books
-Pigeon from the Pigeon books by Mo Willems
-Elephant and Piggie (Mo Willems)
-Dr. Seuss characters (The Lorax, Thing 1 and Thing 2, etc)
-Sherlock Holmes
-Curious George
-Tacky the Penguin
-Little Red Riding Hood
Allison says
I thought of a few others: Percy Jackson (Olympians series), Greg Heffley from Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Charlie Bone (Charlie Bone series).