The Tailypo: A Ghost Story (Paul Galdone Classics) (Paul Galdone Nursery Classic)

This book is perfect for reading in the fall. Not too scary and keeps their attention. The kids love it!

I remembered checking this book out from my school library as a child and I loved it. Was happy to find it online and ordered it just to have as a nice memory. I still remembered the photos and laughed when I read it. Great book for a young child's scary story without being "too scary". Great pictures and great imagination. Footnote, when I read the book in school I was probably six years old and now I'm 48.

Just the right amount of scary for little kids. I read this book to many classes while I was teaching. I would hide the pictures, so that they had to use their imagination to draw a picture of what they thought the tailypo looked like. I told them to pay attention to the description as I read the story. The pictures they drew were great! Now I have shared it with my grandchildren. For little ones it is just a little bit scary enough to thrill of them for Halloween.

This is too scary a story for those afraid of things under their bed or monsters in the closet. The actions in it are also too morbid (especially if your family are not outdoorsman types) for younger children. This was my childhood favorite scary book, however. I am glad knowing that this urban legend (yes it is not just a storybook, it’s also an urban legend) could still be purchased and that the Tailypo lives on.

I’m about to be 30 years old and I still love this book so much from when I was a kid. I had learned my husband had never heard of it, so I searched and was SO happy to see I could get it on here.

Really good book, especially for a child’s first scary story

This is a fun (but creepy) book that I remembered reading as a kid! I personally wouldn't recommend this for kids under 6

Classic from my childhood! Perfect for teachers wanting some spooky stories during Halloween time!