[2] He terminated his college career at Stanford University early to serve in World War II.

[3] In a 2002 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Hunt said, "I knew I'd found the magic key.

"[2] In 1965, Hunt published a book called Bennett Cerf's Pop-Up Riddles, which was sold as a product promotion for $1.00 and two Maxwell House coffee labels.

[6] Among his books, Hunt's personal favorites included best-sellers, The Human Body by David Pelham, Haunted House by Jan Pieńkowski with paper engineering by Tor Lokvig, and How Many Bugs in a Box?

He could make dinosaurs rear up, ships set sail and bats quiver in belfries.

"[1]Cynthia Burlingham, director of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum, said of Hunt, "He was such an important publisher of pop-up books who really advanced them technically.

In 2000, the Movable Book Society honored Hunt with the MBS Lifetime Achievement Award.