Spot Goes to School - Eric Hill

Spot is one of my son's most loved literary characters. Created by Eric Hill, the Spot range of books are both simple and a delight to read with toddlers. Each story tends to be set around a theme that will be familiar to little ones meaning that you can use the books as a teaching and exploring aid. 'Spot goes to school' is, unsurprisingly, based around a first day at school. Spot is initially wary about school but soon learns that his friends will be there, that the teacher is nice, that lessons are fun and that, at the end of the day, despite not wanting to go home, mum will be there to collect him. It also, amusingly, teaches mum that children will say ...  Read the complete review

This is another brilliant spot book, i love all of them. This is a lift the flap book. At the begining of this book spot is scared of going to school and is very shy when he first arrives at school but he soon settles down and begins to enjoy himself with his new friends clair the turtle, tom the aligator, heleh the hippo and steve the monkey. They do show and tell, spell words with wooden blocks, spot spells his name with them, they also paint pictures. Spot realises he has actually enjoyed his day at school and now thinks school is great. I love this book, the picture of spoty taking his little bag to school looks so cute. This book is ...  Read the complete review

We got this book out of the library a few weeks before my daughter started at playgroup, and we read it fairly frequently. She progressed from being very threatened at the idea of “school” to being quite excited about it. Spot is welcomed on his first day at school by a benevolent-looking Miss Bear, and fellow pupils Clare the tortoise, Steve the crocodile and Helen the hippo. The lift-the-flap illustrations help to put across a sense of “school” being fun – singing, dressing up, playing in the playground, listening to a story and painting pictures. When Miss Bear tells Spot it’s time to go home, he says “Oh no! Not yet!” ...  Read the complete review