It’s no wonder that Legos remain incredibly popular with kids and parents—they’re not only fun to play with, they also develop critical skills like problem-solving, creativity and dexterity. If you’ve got a brick builder in your life, these books are a great way to get them thinking about all the different creations they can build with their blocks. The LEGO Ideas Book See All Formats & Editions › The Lego Ideas Book, by Daniel Lipkowitz As its title suggests, this book provides ideas for building lots of different Lego creations. The book is divided into 6 sections—transportation, buildings, space, kingdoms, adventure, and useful makes—each featuring the basic parts needed to make the creations featured in that section and completed designs photographed from multiple angles to help builders reverse-engineer them. The book also offers suggestions for ways to simplify the creations, so you don’t have to worry if you don’t have all the parts. LEGO Chain Reactions: Design and Build Amazing Moving Machines
LEGO Chain Reactions: Design and Build Amazing Moving Machines, by Pat Murphy This spiral-bound book features instructions for building 10 Lego machines that can be used together to create chain reactions. It includes more than 30 pieces to build the machines, but requires other Lego pieces, so it’s best for those who already have an extensive Lego collection and want to discover new ways to use their pieces. The LEGO Neighborhood Book: Build Your Own Town! The LEGO Neighborhood Book: Build Your Own Town!, by Brian Lyles and Jason Lyles The Lego Neighborhood Book gives experienced builders a chance to create buildings with architectural features like cornices and facades, as well as real-world features like park benches, plants, traffic lights and scaffolding. The book includes step-by-step instructions for 4 multi-story buildings, as well as a gallery of the authors’ designs and inspirations for other builds. LEGO Play Book: Ideas to Bring Your Bricks to Life
LEGO Play Book: Ideas to Bring Your Bricks to Life, by Daniel Lipkowitz and Gregory Farshtey The LEGO Play Book features more than 200 builds, from simple to more complex designs, as well as tips and tricks to help builders get more out of their bricks. The book also includes “ten-minute” builds for quick and easy designs, ideas for using key Lego bricks and a “handful of bricks” section for ideas using a limited number of bricks. Cool Creations in 35 Pieces Cool Creations in 35 Pieces, by Sean Kenney In this book, Lego artist Sean Kenney uses the same 35 pieces to construct different Lego creations, including vehicles, spaceships, animals, robots and more. The book includes step-by-step instructions for some of the builds, as well as a list of the 35 Legos used to make them. Many of the parts are more specialized than typical Lego bricks, but this book is a great way to spark creativity and think of alternative ways to build creations, even if you don’t have all the parts.
Lego Crazy Action Contraptions Lego Crazy Action Contraptions, by Klutz This 50-page, spiral-bound book comes with 105 Lego parts—every brick, axle and gear you need to build all 16 projects featured in the book. Each project also includes step-by-step instructions, making it easy to replicate the builds. If you’re looking for something that includes all the parts you’ll need and diagrams for every project, this book is a great find. The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines, by Yoshihito Isogawa This book uses parts from various Technic sets to create hundreds of working models. To aid with building, each model uses color-coded pieces and is photographed from multiple angles. Included in the designs are basic gears, shafts, pulleys, turntables and connectors, allowing the builder to create cranes, motorized cars, a rocket launcher, drag racer and musical instruments. Brick Vehicles: Amazing Air, Land, and Sea Machines to Build from LEGO(R)
Brick Wheels: Incredible Moving Inventions to Make from LEGO, by Warren Elsmore Master modeler Warren Elsmore highlights 40 amazing vehicles in this book highlighting the history of transportation. Broken into four chapters—Road and Rail, Rivers and Oceans, Flying Machines and the Final Frontier—it includes illustrations of a horse and carriage, freight train, speed boat, cruise liner, the Wright Brothers’ first airplane, Tesla electric car, Curiosity Mars rover and more. Included in the book are two posters featuring Lego transportation scenes and step-by-step instructions for some of the smaller projects. Is there a lego-lover in your life?Seven Middle Grade Books for African American History Month Carter Roy, Author of The Blazing Bridge: The Blood Guard Trilogy | Disgusting Critters Series, by Elise Gravel | Honey Girl: The Hawaiian Monk Seal Blog Tour with Jeanne Walker Harvey Non-Fiction Books: Telling Children the Truth Honey Girl: The Hawaiian Monk Seal, by Jeanne Walker Harvey |
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So sit down with a bunch of LEGO bricks and get ready to build!” From School Library Journal Gr 4 Up-This handbook is a must-have. Starting with the basic structure, anatomy, and flexibility of the Lego system, readers are taught different building techniques to add stability and ideas to their creations. Much of the book is devoted to the kinds of scale used in the Lego world and provides mathematical explanations for one's work. Chapters on sculpting and mosaic-making are also thorough and give readers tips that Lego Master Builders use. A great feature of the guide is the Brickopedia, which categorizes more than 275 basic Lego pieces, providing specifications and notes on each one; though not all-inclusive, it does contain the most common items found in most individuals' collections. Templates and Web links for blank design grids include detailed instructions on how to properly use them when making one's own projects. The graphics are of the highest quality and accurately capture what the author is trying to convey without interrupting the flow of text.
Bedford's style is engaging while taking some complicated topics and explaining them in clear, relatable language. Of special note is the repeated mention of the Lego system's flexibility-further stressed by the author's suggestion of changing elements to suit one's personal collection. Like a good Lego project, each chapter expands layer by layer on the one before, resulting in a thorough, well-rounded and indispensable source of guidance and creativity.-Rebecca Gueorguiev, New York Public Libraryα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. See all Editorial Reviews Age Range: 9 and up2 edition (November 8, 2012) 7 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) #68,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) 5 star74%4 star15%3 star6%2 star3%1 star2%See all verified purchase reviewsTop Customer ReviewsGood solid foundation of lego building|Putting order in the thousands of Lego bricks|