Best Book Character Costumes ideas
Dress up as your favorite book character for Halloween and have a fun Bookish Halloween (or World Book Day)! How about one of these book character costume ideas from picture books, chapter books, middle-grade books, and some favorite YA books?
Bring your favorite book characters to life with simple book character costumes you buy — or make yourself. I even have book character costume ideas for adults and teachers!
What are some of the best book character costume choices?
You can choose a character from a classic book like Alice in Wonderland, Madeline, or Max of Where the Wild Things Are. Or, you can choose to dress up a more contemporary favorite book character like Elephant and Piggie, Ada Twist, or Luna Lovegood!
Whatever outfit idea you choose, it’s a day that celebrates reading and books, right?
And that’s something worth celebrating!
Whether it’s Book Week, World Book Day, Read Across America Day, or Halloween, you’ll find inspiring children’s book character costume ideas on this list.
I’ve linked to many costumes that you can buy (because if you’re like me, you want something easy) and some that you can make yourself for those of you who are better at it than me with DIY projects. or shop at thrift stores.
On very few occasions, if I couldn’t find a homemade costume or store selection, I linked to the book. Look through the illustrations and descriptions to make your own costume with clothes you have at home or clothes you bought.
Hopefully this list will inspire you to find a fun reading outfit that’s right for you! And if you need a last-minute easy-to-read character costume, this list will help!
Also, if you’re looking for group costume ideas, use a book series with multiple characters and pretend to be the characters from that book.
These costumes are characters from board books, picture books, and chapter books; There are lots of outfit ideas here. I think you’ll find something you won’t be able to resist.
Book Character Costumes: A to E
Are you ready for a list of book character costumes from A to E?
Start with favorites that start with the letter A like Ada Twist, Alice in Wonderland, and Amelia Bedelia, then move on to Captain Underpants, Clifford, the Cat in the Hat, and Dog Man…
Ada Twist polka dot dress and scientist costume
Alice in Wonderland & Characters: Cheshire Cat, Tweedle Dee, and Tweedle Dum, The Mad Hatter girl child style 1 or child style 2, boy child size, Queen of Hearts (female teen), White Rabbit
Angelina Ballerina
Bad Kitty
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!!
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
