National LEGO Day
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On Friday, January 28th, we celebrate National LEGO® Day, where we acknowledge these great little building toys that have inspired kids and adults everywhere for almost 90 years. With these bricks and studs and a little creativity, we can build towers, cars, dinosaurs, and more. So let’s pick up a book and create with LEGO products/bricks/sets/universe.
365 Things to Do with LEGO Bricks: Lego Fun Every Day of the Year by Rod Gillies with Contributions by Alice Finch (DK Children) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, How-To / Activity, ages 7-12.
Brick City – London by Lonely Planet (Hachette Book Group / Lonely Planet Kids) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, How-To / Activity, Series, ages 7-12.
Brick City – New York by Lonely Planet (Hachette Book Group / Lonely Planet Kids) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, How-To / Activity, Series, ages 7-12.
Build It! Dinosaurs: Make Supercool Models with Your Favorite LEGO® Parts (Brick Books Series) by Jennifer Kemmeter (West Margin Press) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, How-To / Activity, Series, ages 7-12.
Build it! Things That Go: Make Supercool Models with Your Favorite LEGO® Parts (Brick Books Series) by Jennifer Kemmeter (West Margin Press) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, How-To / Activity, Math, Science, ages 7-12.
From an Idea to Lego: The Building Bricks Behind the World’s Largest Toy Company by Lowey Bundy Sichol, illus. C.S. Jennings (HarperCollins / Clarion Books) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, Biography / Memoir, History, ages 7-12.
LEGO Absolutely Everything You Need to Know by DK (DK Children) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, How-To / Activity, History, ages 7-12.
LEGO CITY: Busy Word Book by DK (DK Children) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, How-To / Activity, ages 4-6.
LEGO® Awesome Ideas by Daniel Lipkowitz (DK Children) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, How-To / Activity, Series, ages 7-12.
LEGO® Chain Reactions: Design and build amazing moving machines by Pat Murphy and The Scientists at Klutz Labs (Scholastic) — Nonfiction, Novelty / Pop-Up, How-To / Activity, ages 7-12.
LEGO® DC Comics Super Heroes Build Your Own Adventure by DK and Daniel Lipkowitz (DK Children) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, How-To / Activity, Series, ages, 7-12.
LEGO® NINJAGO: Secret World of the Ninja by Beth Landis Hester (DK Children) — Fiction, Novelty / Pop-Up, How-To / Activity, ages 7-12.
LEGO® Star Wars Ideas Book by Elizabeth Dowsett and Hannah Dolan (DK Children) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, Action / Adventure, How-To / Activity, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, ages 7-12.
LEGO® Star Wars: The Dark Side by Daniel Lipkowitz (DK Children) — Fiction, Novelty / Pop-Up, Action / Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, ages 7-12.
Have a great National LEGO Day!
List compiled by CBC’s resident trivia expert, Sommer Wissner. Check out other diverse book lists on our blog and from our Inclusivity Resources list.
