Favorite Book Character Costumes for Kids on Halloween (2024)

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Dress up as your favorite book character for Halloween and have a HappyBookish Halloween (or World Book Day)! How about one of these book character costume ideas from the favorite children’s picture books, chapter books, middle grade books, and some YA books?

Bring a favorite book character to life with easy book character costumes that you buy — or make. I even have book character costume ideas for adults and for teachers!

What are some of the best book character costume choices?

You could go with a classic book character like Alice in Wonderland, Madeline, or Max of Where the Wild Things Are.

Or, you could select more contemporary favorite book character costumes like Elephant and Piggie, Ada Twist, or Luna Lovegood!

Whatever costume idea you pick, it’s a celebration of reading and books, right?

And that’s something to celebrate!

Whether for Book Week, World Book Day, Read Across America Day, or Halloween, you’ll find inspirational children’s book character costume ideas on this list.

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I’ve linked to many costumes you can buy (because if you’re like me, you want something easy) and some costumes that you can make yourself for those of you who are better than me with DIY projects or shopping at thrift stores.

In very few cases, if I couldn’t find a homemade costume or store option, I’ve linked to the book. Look through the illustrations and descriptions to make your own costume with clothes you have around the house or that you buy.

Hopefully, this list willinspire you to find a fun book costume thatworks for you! And if you need a last-minute easy book character costume, this list will help!

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Also, if you’re looking for group costume ideas, use a book series with many characters and go as the characters from that book.

These costumes are characters from board books, picture books, and chapter books; there are so many costume ideas here. I think you’ll find one that you can’t resist.

Book Character Costumes: A to E

Ready for the A to E book character costume list?

Start with favorite characters that begin with the letter A like Ada Twist, Alice in Wonderland, and Amelia Bedelia, then continue on to Captain Underpants, Clifford, the Cat in the Hat, and Dog Man…

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Ada Twist polk a dot dress and scientist costume

Alice in Wonderland & Characters: Cheshire Cat, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, The Mad Hatter girl child style 1or child style 2, boy child size, Queen of Hearts (female teen), White Rabbit

Amelia Bedelia DIY directions

Angelina Ballerina

American Girl Doll Characters

Arthur

Bad Kitty

Book Fairy DIY

Boss Baby

Captain Underpants (this full body book character costume is fantastic!)

Cat in the Hat(see more Dr. Seuss below)

Charlie Brown

Clark the Shark

Clifford the Big Red Dog (toddler-size unisex) — talk about adorable!!

Comic Book Character

Cow (Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type) baby, child, adult

Crayon(The Day the Crayons Quit) /DIY Crayon Costume

Curious George & the Man in the Yellow Hat

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Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior

Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja

Diary of a Wimpy Kid DIY

Dog Man (DIY)

Dragon (Dragons Love Tacos, Puff the Magic Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon, Eragon)

Dr. Seuss Characters: Horton Hears A Who, The Lorax, Thing 1 and Thing 2, The Cat in the Hat child / Cat in the Hat adult, Sam I Am accessories

Elephant and Piggie (I love this cute onesie, don’t you?)

Eloise

Enola Holmes

Book Character Costumes: F to R

Think of all the characters in fairy tale stories…There are so many good heores and villains.But, anyone from Harry Potter is also a great costume choice. Or what about spiderman Miles Morales?

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Since kids love to dress up as their favorite book characters from the most popular book series of all time, Harry Potter, there are lots of fun costume options for bookworms who love this beloved series. See all the ideas below.

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Fairy Tales:

Sleeping Beauty/Prince Philip

Beautyand theBeast

Cinderella

Goldilocks& the ThreeBears

Little Red Riding Hood

Rapunzel

Snow White

Fancy Nancy (add sunglasses, a feather boa to the dress)

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Fly Guy

Frankenstein

Franklin

Harold and the Purple Crayon

Harriet the Spy

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Harry Potter: Hermione, Ron, Luna Lovegood, Newt Scamander, Death Eater *adult size, Dobby *mask, Dolores Umbridge (this pink suit outfit is killer — I might wear this costume next Halloween!), Voldemort adult, Dumbledore

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Hello Kitty

The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings

Frodo

Gandalf

Legolas

Arwen (don’t forget the elf ears, too!)

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How to Train Your Dragon Toothless, Hiccup, Astrid

Hunger Games

Katniss

Effie Trinket

Junie B. Jones

Knighttoddler,child(King Arthur, The Knight and the Dragon, St. George & the Dragon)

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Ladybug Girl & Bumblebee Boy

Legends of Zita (Zita)

Little Critter

Little House on the Prairie / pioneer girl

Madeline

Magic Tree HouseJack and Annie

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Max (Where the Wild Things Are)
*This might be my favorite book character costume on the list. How cute is this?

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Miles Morales SpiderMan
(Miles is both a comic book character and a prose book character!)

Miss Nelson (Is Missing)

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Miss Frizzlefrom The Magic School Bus

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Narwhal

Nursery Rhymes: Mother Goose, Little Bo Peep, Humpty Dumpty

Olivia

The One and Only Ivan

Paddington DIY

Percy Jackson: Camp Half-Blood t-shirt Gladiator Knight Athena

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Pete the Cat

Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Tinker Bell, Peter’s Escaped Shadow

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Pigeon mask, Pigeon costume mask

Pinkilicious

Pippi Longstocking

Prince Caspian

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Raggedy Ann

Ramona

Rainbow Fairies

Redwall: Martin the Warrior

Roald Dahl books: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Matilda, The Trenchbull (a favorite book character villain,) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s Willy Wonka, Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde.

Best Book Character Costumes: S to Z

The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Winnie the Pooh are two favorite book character costume ideas for babies and toddlers — talk about cute!

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Shakespeare adult costume

Sherlock Holmes

Skippyjon Jones

Splat the Cat

Strange Case of the Origami Yoda

Strega Nona

Tacky the Penguin

Three Musketeers

The Stinky Cheese Man

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar child, baby

Uglies: Tally

Warriors (CATS!)

Where’s Waldoadult &kid

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The Wild Robot

Winnie The Pooh: Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Roo Costume

Witch*see all thebooks about witcheshere

Wizard of Oz: Dorothy, Lion, Tin Man, Scarecrow, Wicked Witch, Glinda the Good, Munchkin

Vampire Academy

Viola Swamp mask, tights, witch dress

Zoey and Sassafras

What other book character costume ideas do you have?

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FAQs

How to dress up like Amelia Bedelia? ›

Amelia's style is simple and modest. Amelia Bedelia wears a bonnet, white apron and black Mary Janes. Put a sexy spin on an Amelia Bedelia costume by substituting a French maid costume.

What book character wears jeans and shirt? ›

Charlie Bucket” from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' by Roald Dahl Perhaps one of the most famous Roald Dahl books thanks to the film(s), Charlie Bucket wears normal clothes typical for a young boy such as shirt/jumper and jeans.

What fictional characters never give up? ›

From setback to success: 8 film characters who didn't give up
  • Elle Woods in Legally Blonde. ...
  • Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness. ...
  • Rudy Ruettiger in Rudy. ...
  • Katherine Johnson in Hidden Figures. ...
  • Erin Brokovich in Erin Brokovich. ...
  • Jim Lovell in Apollo 13. ...
  • Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.

Which story book character never aged? ›

Dorian Gray, fictional character, the hedonistic protagonist of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). He exchanges his soul for youth that never fades.

What are the top three costumes for Halloween? ›

What Are the Most Popular Halloween Costumes This Year?
Rank (2023)Costume Name
1Barbie
2Princess
3Spider-Man
4Witch
23 more rows
Oct 24, 2023

What is the favorite Halloween costume this year? ›

Google Trends released a list of the most popular Halloween costumes for 2023. According to Google's “Freight Geist” tally, Spider-Man, Wednesday Addams and Taylor Swift made the list (though Swift is feeling No. 22, just outside the top 20), along with the usual dinosaur, fairy, rabbit, pirate and witch costumes.

What disability does Amelia Bedelia have? ›

Her grandparents just accept her as she is and they are awesome. BTW: Amelia Bedelia is so obviously autistic.

How does Junie B. Jones dress? ›

Junie B. Jones costume is a pink cardigan and a purple skirt. For her shoes she wears black flat shoes with optional colorful socks, a short brunette bob with a cute headband.

What age is Amelia Bedelia recommended for? ›

Gets big laughs from 4 year old. I think Amelia Bedelia books are fun! :) I loved them growing up and my kids are loving them too. I chose 5 and up because younger kids don't always get all the funny parts, but my 5 yr old does and thinks they are funny.

What book character wears pink? ›

Pinkalicious. Pinkalicious - Every child will know this unforgettable book character by her bright pink dress. Take it even further and spray her hair with washable pink hair spray and glitter.

What book character wears pajamas? ›

For example, boy in The Polar Express wears yellow pyjamas and a blue dressing gown - something easy to recreate at home. Similarly, Wendy from Peter Pan simply wears a blue nightgown in the film version. David Walliams' The Midnight Gang is great for people who want to wear pyjamas for World Book Day.

Which childrens book character wears dungarees? ›

Matilda (or one of her classmates, like Lavender or Amanda)

Matilda often has a red bow and carries around a book. Lavender wears dungarees and has her hair in a plait that's wound upwards around her head.

Is there a book with only one character? ›

Outcasts of Order L.E. Modesitt Jr. Assassin's Price L.E.

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