7 Literary Baby Costumes for Halloween
If your baby is too young for trick-or-treating, that means your baby is still probably just the right age for you to pick out his or her costume. Revel in your moment of dictatorship: in a few years your child will be making you cough up $25 for a Minecraft box head or saying that she’s just going to cut a few holes in her comforter and go as a blanket. But while you’re in the golden years of total child costume control, why not display your bookishness—and your hopes for a future bookworm—by dressing up your baby as a literary figure? Here are seven suggestions that could win you the Pulitzer Prize in baby costuming.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
Hardcover $20.00
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
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Hardcover $20.00
Baby Shakespeare
Put your baby in a black onesie. Next, use a face paint crayon to draw on some facial hair—pick your favorite Shakespeare depiction for inspiration, and add a mustache and a Van Dyke or full beard. Craft a proper Elizabethan collar using a stack of coffee filters, cut to size. Finally, snap a photo before your baby rips off the collar and eats it.
Baby Shakespeare
Put your baby in a black onesie. Next, use a face paint crayon to draw on some facial hair—pick your favorite Shakespeare depiction for inspiration, and add a mustache and a Van Dyke or full beard. Craft a proper Elizabethan collar using a stack of coffee filters, cut to size. Finally, snap a photo before your baby rips off the collar and eats it.
The Joy Luck Club
Paperback
$12.80
$16.00
The Joy Luck Club
By Amy Tan
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Paperback
$12.80
$16.00
Baby Amy Tan
Style your baby as Amy Tan with a sleek, black geometric bob wig, bright red lipstick, and a chunky jade necklace. Dress her in red for joy and luck.
Baby Amy Tan
Style your baby as Amy Tan with a sleek, black geometric bob wig, bright red lipstick, and a chunky jade necklace. Dress her in red for joy and luck.
The Old Man and the Sea
Paperback $12.99
The Old Man and the Sea
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Paperback $12.99
Baby Hemingway
Did any of your relatives give your baby a thick, uncomfortable-looking cable knit sweater for a present? It will be perfect for this costume. Pop your baby in the sweater, add a white beard—perhaps from a Santa costume—and a manly accessory—a pipe, a fishing rod, the mounted head of some animal. It was a good, clean costume, a true costume. The truest costume baby would ever wear.
Baby Hemingway
Did any of your relatives give your baby a thick, uncomfortable-looking cable knit sweater for a present? It will be perfect for this costume. Pop your baby in the sweater, add a white beard—perhaps from a Santa costume—and a manly accessory—a pipe, a fishing rod, the mounted head of some animal. It was a good, clean costume, a true costume. The truest costume baby would ever wear.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Paperback $11.00
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By
James Joyce
Introduction
Seamus Deane
Noted by
Seamus Deane
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Paperback $11.00
Baby James Joyce
Slick your baby’s hair back. Add a bow tie, an eye patch, round glasses, mustache, and the soul of an Irish modernist. Bonus points if your baby looks a little despondent in this getup.
Baby James Joyce
Slick your baby’s hair back. Add a bow tie, an eye patch, round glasses, mustache, and the soul of an Irish modernist. Bonus points if your baby looks a little despondent in this getup.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Paperback $14.99
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Paperback $14.99
Baby Flannery O’Connor
Cat’s eye glasses and 1950’s style dress will turn your baby into the wry queen of Southern lit. If your baby has curly hair, comb it into the classic Flannery ‘do, pinned back at the sides, curly on the bottom. Accessorize with a stuffed peacock.
Baby Flannery O’Connor
Cat’s eye glasses and 1950’s style dress will turn your baby into the wry queen of Southern lit. If your baby has curly hair, comb it into the classic Flannery ‘do, pinned back at the sides, curly on the bottom. Accessorize with a stuffed peacock.
God Help the Child
Paperback $14.95
God Help the Child
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Paperback $14.95
Baby Toni Morrison
Pick the era of Toni to style your baby after based on your baby’s hair. If she has braids or curls, model her on current, grand dame Toni by pulling her hair back and dusting it with some flour. Add an understated sweater and a chunky, colorful necklace. If your baby has poofy hair, style her as dashing 1970’s Toni. Complete the look with a golden Nobel Prize medal.
Baby Toni Morrison
Pick the era of Toni to style your baby after based on your baby’s hair. If she has braids or curls, model her on current, grand dame Toni by pulling her hair back and dusting it with some flour. Add an understated sweater and a chunky, colorful necklace. If your baby has poofy hair, style her as dashing 1970’s Toni. Complete the look with a golden Nobel Prize medal.
The Poems of Marianne Moore
Paperback $23.00
The Poems of Marianne Moore
By
Marianne Moore
Editor
Grace Schulman
Paperback $23.00
Baby Marianne Moore
If your baby is the poetic sort, dress her up like famed modernist poet Moore, who was known to put on a tricorn hat and black cape for photo ops.
Baby Marianne Moore
If your baby is the poetic sort, dress her up like famed modernist poet Moore, who was known to put on a tricorn hat and black cape for photo ops.
What is your favorite baby’s first literary halloween costume?