The Tailypo : A Ghost Story

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Summary: The Tailypo
Review: I am a teacher who has been working with kindergarteners and first graders for 28 years. I also have 3 children. I began reading The Tailypo to them many years ago. We checked it out of the library so many times that my children remember us having owned it! I don't know why I never really tried to purchase one until now! It is a perfect scary tale for little ones--just enough to make them snuggle up and squeal. I read it to my class every year.

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Summary: Excellent Thriller for a young audience!
Review: I am thirty-seven years old, my grandmother use to tell the story of the Tailypo to me when I was a very young child of six. It would frighten me and my cousin, but we loved it! I then told it to my daughter when she was six and was surprised to find it as a book in our public library. The Tailypo has become family tradition!

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Summary: Loving this book
Review: I first heard this story when I was in Kindergarden, during a Halloween reading session . Needless to say I was very impressionable at that age, and now still refuse to sleep with my arms and feet off the bed at age 25. I recently began looking for this book and am happy to have found it here. All mental scarring aside, I love the story... but just wish they would release it with a stuffed critter ( perferably with permanently attached tail) to boot.

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Summary: An old childhood nightmare
Review: I just checked this book out from the library after roughly 13 years (or longer)since I had last seen or heard it being told. Each Halloween of my grade school years, the music teacher would read this tale to us in a dimmed class room. It scared me horribly. I've got to admit,I was a very easily frightened child, but there it is. Seeing it today, through the eyes of a grown-up and horror-afficionado,I don't find it nearly so horrifying. However, I still think it's an excellent and eerily told tale. (The illustrations, which I had not forgotten,accentuate the spookiness of the story). I'd love to learn more about the history behind this folktale.

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Summary: Tailypo tailypo, now I want my tailypo
Review: I read this book back in elementary school, and I''ve always remembered it. I didn't know whether it was in print any longer and am happy to see it is, because I search for every time I'm around the childrens book in a bookstore. I highly recomend this:) Just looking at the cover again makes me laugh....it's freaky, cute and morbid at the same time:)

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Summary: Tailypo tailypo, where is my tailypo?!
Review: I read this book back in elementary school, and I'd always remembered it. I didn't know whether it was in print any longer and am happy to see it is, because I search for every time I'm around the childrens books in a bookstore. I highly recommend this:) Just looking at the cover again makes me laugh....it's freaky, cute and morbid at the same time:)

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Summary: Terrifyingly memorable
Review: I was 8 years old and going to a small public school in St. John's, Newfoundland, when my teacher decided to read us this story for Halloween. It scared me witless and I had nightmares about it up until high school.

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Summary: Scariest thing i have ever read
Review: Ok, I am in 11th grade, and I read this book in like 4th grade. I still have nighmares and flashbacks about it. It really scared me. I will not even touch the book if I ever see it. If you do buy this book for your child, I highly suggest that your child is not a fragile on or one who is even a little scared of "creatures" of the night. Ok, that's it.

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Summary: Tailypo, Tailypo, time to get your Tailypo!
Review: This book holds a very sacred place in my heart. I remember reading this book on several occasions throughout my childhood and I can honestly say it use to give me goose-bumps. I just recently purchased a copy, 20 years later, and I have to admit, the story still entertains.

This spooky and delightful little tale is not too wordy and the book's pace is perfect. The illustrations also add mystery by never really exposing the title character. We just get a peek of it's yellow eyes, it's claws, and of course, it's furry TAILYPO. Also, the old man's weathered, hopeless face and his 3 dog's droopy expressions make pitiful and likable characters that will surely delight the young reader.

So for the younger crowd out there who would like a good-old fashioned scare, this book is perfect. Especially during those dark, stormy nights or out by a campfire or when you're all by yourself in your dark, empty room.

Fear THE TAILYPO.

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Summary: Scared til this day!
Review: This book was read to us by our sadistic (...). 30 years later it is still conjures up the most horrifying images my imagination can derive. Forget the Exorcist and Poltergeist! This story cost me at least 10 years of good sleep.