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Spot the Dog
Spot Goes on Holiday
Mum and Dad are taking Spot on holiday, where he gets to play in the sand, swim in the ocean and even makes a new friend!
Toddlers will love joining Spot at the beach in this classic picture book. With fun flaps to train fine motor skills and an adventure to encourage curiosity and exploration, this is great for early learning and play.
If you loved this, try these titles for more lift-the-flap fun:
Where's Spot?
Spot Goes to School
Spot Goes to the Farm
Toddlers will love joining Spot at the beach in this classic picture book. With fun flaps to train fine motor skills and an adventure to encourage curiosity and exploration, this is great for early learning and play.
If you loved this, try these titles for more lift-the-flap fun:
Where's Spot?
Spot Goes to School
Spot Goes to the Farm
24 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
About the author
Eric Hill
848 books122 followersEric 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.
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March 13, 2022
I want to love Spot, I really do. The stories are simple and the images are bold which is great for little ones but the speech/ stories aren’t really messages/ ideas I love sharing with Bud. As a library book I didn’t feel any loss really.
The images were enough to engage him though and I found it better to point things out on each page that were fun rather than narrate yet another story where the only girl figure bar his mum is Helen- uptight, stroppy and killing the holiday vibe.
Bud loved the toy boat and the sandcastles in particular.
The images were enough to engage him though and I found it better to point things out on each page that were fun rather than narrate yet another story where the only girl figure bar his mum is Helen- uptight, stroppy and killing the holiday vibe.
Bud loved the toy boat and the sandcastles in particular.
July 5, 2018
Who else wants to go on holiday with Spot?
November 27, 2018
I need to go on holiday. Life is too stressful right now.
January 8, 2022
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December 31, 2023
This one solidified it for me. I really do prefer the simple sentence structure for these books. Although simple at first glance, I find there's little surprises hidden in the picture. I adore these.
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January 8, 2015Just as a metaphorical kind of thing, not in reality or anything, I'd kind of like to hunt Eric Hill down with some kind of nasty weapon and make him apologise for his horrible books before, oh I'm not in the least bit violent so I can't keep up this schtick of the supposedly aggressive thing I'd do as revenge for this book, BUT having said that, this is a truly horrible book. If you're Spot-curious, I recommend Where's Spot? and Spot's First Walk. The rest of them suck arse. They're just random unconnected vignettes with no story, insipid gender-stereotyped characters and ewww. They're not hateful or offensive *particularly* but their sheer blandness offends all on its own. The drawings are nice enough, and of course the kiddies love Spot or I wouldn't be writing this review. But I worry about what they deliver to a toddler aside from a transfixed couple of minutes of mindless flap-lifting. Do they teach him that it's OK to be without a personality? I don't even. These books just seem to multiply. You dont even buy them, they just find themselves at your house. Meh. I'm going to try the kid on A.A. Milne later this year, so maybe he'll shake some sense into himself.
October 2, 2011
I remember the Spot books from my own time in Primary School and there are several books the first one was 'Where's Spot'. I decided to read this book as it catches the childrens attention immediately with the title 'Spot Goes on Holiday.
It already makes the reader the to turn into the first page. In the sotry the Spot's mum and dad take him to the beach for a day. At the beach he buys things, makes a sandcastle, tries to catch a fish and he makes a new friend.
On each page there is flap to turn over which really engages the reader and develops the story. The book is full of colour and has a simple story line.
This would be a really good book for children in EYFS as it would engage them into the story and they would have fun looking at the pictures, getting them introduced to new words and they would get excited looking under the flaps on each page.
It already makes the reader the to turn into the first page. In the sotry the Spot's mum and dad take him to the beach for a day. At the beach he buys things, makes a sandcastle, tries to catch a fish and he makes a new friend.
On each page there is flap to turn over which really engages the reader and develops the story. The book is full of colour and has a simple story line.
This would be a really good book for children in EYFS as it would engage them into the story and they would have fun looking at the pictures, getting them introduced to new words and they would get excited looking under the flaps on each page.
March 21, 2016
I just read a really angry(maybe they don't consider themselves angry) review about how terrible these books are, and it made me want to shake the person and say (as I shook them) "NOT ALL OF US ARE BORN READING THE ILIAD". As I contemplated the spot books (for my previous review on "where's spot"), I came to realise that I loved them when I was younger because there were only so many words on a page, and I was able to read it on my own. I had a very hard time with reading as a child, (I hear it was dyslexia, but does dyslexia go away?) and I dread to think how that other woman would treat a child she deemed too old for such books. We live in such a nutbag world.
p.s. isnt this a book for toddler ish aged babes?? where comprehension is being learned? O_O.
p.s. isnt this a book for toddler ish aged babes?? where comprehension is being learned? O_O.
June 8, 2011
This book was a huge favourite of mine. I used to have ALL of these books and I read them a lot because I liked the pictures. When it became an animated thing, I loved it so much! I had the VHSs and watched them everyday. I don't know when I stopped or when I grew up from it, but this series has completely escaped my memory until just recently when I read the book: "1001 Children's Books you must read before you grow up".
February 15, 2016
A wonderful read from my childhood, one I’d certainly suggest for other youngsters. Whilst it is not my all-time favourite childhood read I can still recall all the details of this one meaning it certainly left a lasting impression upon my young mind.
And isn’t that what we want with children’s books, for them to leave a positive lasting impression?
And isn’t that what we want with children’s books, for them to leave a positive lasting impression?
August 2, 2010
Lumayan disc 50%.
January 9, 2014
Fun, and a little odd in places as some of the characters get quite shirty with poor Spot.
September 21, 2014
Nice toddler preparation for what a holiday means
July 13, 2015
Love the "Spot" books - they were my favourite childhood books
April 27, 2016
Eric Hill has hit the nail on the head when writing children's books. Unfortunately Victoria didn't really seem to be into it yet.
V @ 5 months.
V @ 5 months.
September 28, 2016
Fun and interactive
September 24, 2015
Good story. Flimsy flaps though...
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