Spot's Birthday Party Paperback – January 1, 2003

This is my granddaughter’s favorite book. Someone gave us the paperback edition, but after 4 grandchildren, it started to fall apart. The flaps remained intact, but the pages started to fall out. This board book version is much more sturdy! She’ll be able to read it and open the flaps again and again!

Having my grandson asking me to read with him - over and over! He enjoys the Spot books!

Bought for our two year olds birthday! Starting a birthday book tradition. She loved reading it, opening the flaps and talking about the animals inside.

We have a few older spot books that are from my now 7 year old and while my 2 year old loves them, a few of the flaps are missing. I did what most people would do and I popped onto Amazon and ordered him a few.I this story it's Spots birthday party in which he's starting with a game of hide and seek. He finds all his friends and they celebrate!

My son initially found this at the library- I knew once we had it checked out and at home for a few days we would need our own copy to soften the blow of returning the other one. He was 20 months old when we started reading it, and it's still currently one of his favorites. He calls it "seek"- because the animals are all playing hide and seek at spots birthday party. He loves to lift the flaps, describe the animals on the pages, and point to different objects within the book to say their color. We've got tons of mileage out of this one so far, and I see us reading it for a while to come!

We have most of the Spot lift-the-flap books, and this one is similar to the "Where's Spot?" one. In this story, Spot's guests at his birthday party are playing hide-and-seek, and Spot is "it". The animals that are hiding are the same ones as in the "Where's Spot?" book...and Spot's mommy is also playing the game. I thought it was too similar, but my toddler likes it, and pulls it out with "Where's Spot?" all the time. The flaps are that thick heavyweight craft paper (like the kind used for scrapbooking) and you may need to pre-fold the flaps so that toddlers don't rip them off right away in their enthusiasm to find the animals with Spot. If the flaps do come off, just use some Elmer's glue to put them back on, dry overnight, and pre-fold on the crease where it's supposed to bend, and it'll be just like new (I've repaired many lift-the-flap books this way).

This was a first birthday gift for a granddaughter. She will receive other Spot books for other occasions over the next year or so.

My grandson loves Spot the dog books, great stories and lovely illustrations. Highly recommended