Spot Can Count

Spot the Dog

by Eric Hill

The bestselling puppy is better than ever. Spot's 25th birthday presents are bold, beautiful color covers that give him a great new look. Enjoy Spot in paperback with full-color covers and traditional Lift-the-Flap features. Have more fun with Spot!

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Animals, Counting, Dogs, Fiction, Number

24 pages, Board book

First published October 14, 1983

About the author

Eric Gordon Hill OBE was a popular author and illustrator of children's picture books, best known for his character Spot the Dog. His works have been widely praised for their contributions to child literacy. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.

Reviews

[Lightwhisper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gosto das ilustrações e da ideia de contar, mas para contar bem tem que se abrir partes destacadas,onde já está a resposta ;(

[createitlibrarian (Amanda) · Rating 5 out of 5]

A participatory lift-the-flap book that can be used with a mixed age group of 2-5 year olds.

[Bianca Orellana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lift-the-flaps are always a hit with my two-year-old!

[Karen Cockerill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great pop up learn to count book

[Jeremy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked lifting the flaps and learning animals

[Trisha Parsons · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book for nostalgia purposes, but also because it has flaps that, when opened, reveal a part of the story. My kids were yelling "open it!"

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spot counts up from 1 to 10 on a visit to the farm.

This lift-the-flap picture book teaches counting 1-to-10 as well as the names of common farm animals.

[Ian McHugh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eadie loved counting with this book. She liked Spot poking around too.

[Lynnette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty standard lift the flap book. Our version was thick paper. Not that durable depending on the kid.

[Slayermel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spot can count is specifically designed to help young children learn to count and recognize putting an object with a number. Most children learn to count to ten at a pretty young age but it’s a new concept for them to understand matching an item per number to really understand the value of a number. This book is perfect to help with this as they can point to each barn animal as they count along. The book is also made more fun by adding the element of pop-up fun. The children can lift the flaps after they have counted to see the written number hiding with spot under the flaps. This is also great for having number recognition in written form, which leads to beginning stages of writing and reading. :0)

The pictures are fun and very colourful.

[Miriam · Rating 2 out of 5]

Like most counting books, this one was perfectly adequate. It's featuring Spot was cute, but ultimately didn't help it. Not the illustrations were any less cute, but I didn't feel any ground being broken. I don't know how much of my negative reaction has to do with the book, and how much is an innate disdain for the conventions of counting books, going back to when I was young enough to actually be learning how to count. Spot, you've seen better days.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my favorite counting book, but it's easy enough for a 2 year old and she's already familiar with Spot from some board books we own. She calls this one "Big Spot book" since it's a larger format than ours are and likes to carry it around everywhere and look at it herself.

[jacky · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice, simple counting book with flaps. Leave it to good ol' Spot. Each page spread has animals to count, then the flap reveals the number. Great for kids just learning to count, because those kids are still excited about farm animals and flaps.

[Heidi-Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lift-the-flap AND counting. Perfect for movement storytime.

5/5/14 Went well. I had an older child (almost done with first year of K) who knew how many and got bored with the counting part. And the lift-the-flaps didn't hide much. Still, it kept the young'uns' attention.

[Kathrine Rogers]

Counting Week

[Thia]

counting

[Daniel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the simple-to-read-and-understand Spot books. The colors and art the illustrator uses give a sense of warmth and coziness.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great counting book to read with a child who is just learning! It goes from 1-10 and counts farm animals. Also, there are flaps with hidden pictures and words that are fun to look at.

[Maura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just your basic counting book on the farm.

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun counting book.read it to a 5 year old he loved it!

[David Mitchell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this at least one hundred times with three children.

[Marilyn]

1.21.1997

4.11.2000 Alissa's reading several words in these books - you, your, my, and, for, the, from.

[Tapani Aulu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kiva kurkistuskirja. Varmaan luetaan näitä montakin kertaa.

[Diane · Rating 5 out of 5]

A cute book with farm animals and Spot. Lovely lift the flaps and beautiful colors.