Where's Spot? - Eric Hill > Reviews

Advantages: Interactive lift the flap, hide and seek book. Keeps little ones amused.
Disadvantages: None, other than little hands sometimes rip the flaps in excitement to find Spot!

...be downloaded for young children: www.funwithspot.com ~ Where's Spot? ~ This is a great hide and seek, lift the flap book, aimed at pre-school children. Spot's Mum, Sally, asks "Where's Spot?" and so begins an interactive hunt for Spot through the house. Is he behind the door? Is he inside the clock? (grandfather clock I hasten to add!) Is he in the piano? Is he under the stairs? And so on until eventually Spot is found in a basket ... Read review

Advantages: Interactive, Well Designed, Appealing to Youngsters
Disadvantages: Slightly Expensive, Flaps can Tear Out

"Where's Spot?" was the first book by freelance illustrator, graphic designer and art director Eric Hill. Hill created Spot as a bedtime story character for his son Christopher, who was born in 1976. In 1980, the book "Where's Spot?" was published for the first time and marked the start of the "baby interaction" publishing concept. "Where's Spot?" was the very first interactive lift-the-flap book of its kind. When it was first published, "Where's ... Read review

Advantages: Flaps to lift, animals to find, educational, well loved characters
Disadvantages: none

One of the most recognisable characters to pre-school children, after TV favourites like the Teletubbies, must be Spot the dog. Eric Hill has written many books about this lovable puppy, together with his parents Sam and Sally and his friends. "Where's Spot"is one of the simplest of the story and revolves around Sally looking for Spot at dinner time. She looks all over the house and finds all the other animals but no Spot, until the tortoise helps ... Read review