{"id":2155,"date":"2014-11-22T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2014-11-22T15:34:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T21:34:44","slug":"hill-eric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/hill-eric\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill, Eric"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2156 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ph_hill.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Hill\" width=\"140\" height=\"145\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2157 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_splas.jpg\" alt=\"Spot Goes Splash!\" width=\"130\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_splas.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_splas-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2158 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_first.jpg\" alt=\"Spot's First Words\" width=\"130\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_first.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_first-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2159 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_where1.jpg\" alt=\"Where's Spot?\" width=\"130\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_where1.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_where1-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Eric Hill, creator of the most popular puppy in children&#8217;s books, was born\u00a0on September 7, 1927, in Holloway, London. Hill left school at the age of 14 and was hired as a messenger for a commercial art studio, where a newspaper cartoonist taught him a simple drawing style with ink and watercolor.<\/p>\n<p>Hill was working as a freelance artist and designer when he came up with the idea for <em>Where&#8217;s Spot?<\/em> in 1980. He noticed that his two-year-old son was amused by advertising flaps and hidden pictures. He combined the flap concept with his love for dogs and the book was an instant success. Spot and his adventures have been made into board books and movies. The interactive books have been translated into fifty languages in one hundred countries. In 2008, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hill passed away on June 6, 2014, at his home in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014\u00a0Karen Ritz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Hill, creator of the most popular puppy in children&#8217;s books, was born\u00a0on September 7, 1927, in Holloway, London. Hill left school at the age of 14 and was hired as a messenger for a commercial art studio, where a newspaper cartoonist taught him a simple drawing style with ink and watercolor. 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