{"id":252119,"date":"2025-10-31T01:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252119\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T01:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:17:10","slug":"lebron-james-announces-new-halloween-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252119\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James announces new Halloween children&#8217;s book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761873429_967_espn_generic_m.jpg&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anthony GharibOct 31, 2025, 11:00 AM<\/p>\n<p><a data-behavior=\"copy_link\" data-social-tool=\"copy\" href=\"#\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link icon-font-before icon-chain-solid-before reactions-copy-link copy-link\" aria-label=\"Copy Link\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761873430_203_check.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80.png\" alt=\"Copy Link\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><a data-social-tool=\"email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=LeBron%20James%20announces%20new%20Halloween%20children%27s%20book&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com.au%2Fnba%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F46786258\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link icon-font-before icon-email-solid-before email social-clicks-email\" aria-label=\"Email\">Email<\/a><a data-social-tool=\"print\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/print?id=46786258\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link print icon-font-before icon-print-solid-before page-action\" aria-label=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Print<\/a>Open Extended Reactions<\/p>\n<p>With the announcement of his latest children&#8217;s book, &#8220;Happy Spooky Halloween,&#8221; on Thursday, <a data-player-guid=\"1f6592b3-ff53-d321-8dc5-6038d48c1786\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/1966\/lebron-james\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a> has put on his author hat once again.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s Trending in the NBA?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46710245\/2025-emirates-nba-cup-court-designs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA Cup: Court designs for Lakers, Celtics and more<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46702838\/jaylen-brown-druski-coulda-records-boston-celtics-auditions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylen Brown appears as guest judge on Druski&#8217;s &#8216;Coulda Been Records&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46620932\/nba-2025-offseason-social-media-compilation-reaction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron, Jokic and more 2025 NBA offseason moments told by social media<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46608847\/nba-netflix-starting-five-season-two-takeaways-highlights-gilgeous-alexander-haliburton-brown-harden-durant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top takeaways from Season 2 of Netflix&#8217;s &#8216;Starting 5&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46604417\/cleveland-cavaliers-2025-26-classic-edition-navy-blue-uniforms-55th-anniversary?referrer=scribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cavaliers unveil &#8216;Classic Edition&#8217; uniforms for 55th anniversary season<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 32-page picture book with illustrations by Ariel Landy is about &#8220;teamwork and Halloween thrills.&#8221; It is set to release on July 21 by publisher HarperCollins.<\/p>\n<p>Halloween is the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2876e98b-b9bc-2920-4319-46e6943f8be4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> star&#8217;s favorite holiday, and he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/42075640\/lebron-halloween-two-dates-always-circles-nba-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">often dressed up in costume<\/a>. He called it a bucket list item to launch a book about the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You guys know how much I love Halloween and this one&#8217;s going to be special,&#8221; James said in a short video on social media. &#8220;So happy spooky Halloween &#8230; to everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DQcVs26gd-D\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">       <\/p>\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DQcVs26gd-D\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A post shared by \ud83d\udc51 (@kingjames)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plot follows a main character named Zara and her friends attending a Halloween party &#8220;the big kids&#8221; are throwing at fictional Hickory Elementary, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/happy-spooky-halloween-lebron-james\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HarperCollins&#8217; description<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>James has previously published three children&#8217;s books: &#8220;I Promise&#8221; in 2020, &#8220;We Are Family&#8221; in 2023 and &#8220;I Am More Than&#8221; in 2024. &#8220;I Promise&#8221; became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony GharibOct 31, 2025, 11:00 AM EmailPrintOpen Extended Reactions With the announcement of his latest children&#8217;s book, &#8220;Happy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-252119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}