Looking for some great bookweek costumes ideas? Checkout our book and costume matching


We've done the hard work for you and matched great books to some awesome costumes

Book week starts on the 17th August and is a great way for your child to get involved in the world of books & continue to foster their imagination

We've divided some of most popular costumes and books into 3 categories:

  • Scary  - think vampires, witches, ninjas, ghosts & goblins
  • Magical - Clown, muskateers & more
  • Historical - Cowboys/Cowgirls, pirates 

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Something Scary

Costume

Book

Vampire

Twilight Series, Goosebumps by RL Stein

Witch

The Witches by Roald Dahl

Room on the Broom  by Julia Donaldson

Freak street book series - Meet the Wizardsons, The Wizard of Oz

Ghosts

Scream series,  Goosebumps by RL Stein, Casper the friendly ghost

Ninjas

Marvel Ninja’s from The Avengers series

Something magical

Clown

Clown by Quentin Blake or Look at me I’m a clown by Sebastian Braun

Maddie the Mitzvah Clown by Karen Rostoker Gruber

Muskateer

The Three Musketeers

Butterfly

Ten Magic Butterflies by Danica MacKellar, The very hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle, Beautiful Buttergly by Steve Parish or The Magic Faraway Taree by Enid Blyton character Silky the Fairy

Sailor

The Sailor Dog by Margaret Wise Brown or The Sailor and his Frog byJenny Ryan or Hello Sailor by Ingrid Gordon

Something Historical

Roman Emperor

Julius Caesar

Indian Girl

Pocahontas

Cowboy & Cowgirl

Woody from Toy Story, Let’s Sing a Lullaby with the Brave Cowboy by Jan Thomas

Pirates

That’s not my Pirate by Usborne books , or Captain Crabclaw’s Crew by Frances Watts and David Legge, or Dance Like a Pirate’ by Stephanie Owen Reede or ‘The Pirate Who Had to Pee’, or 'I wish I had a pirate suit' by Pamela Allen, Pirate Girl by Cornelia Funke or Pirate Princess by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen