By Daniel Lipkowitz
A big how-to book of LEGO builds grouped into little worlds your child can make and then play with.
Where a plain idea book just shows you finished models, this one groups the builds into whole scenes, a city, a haunted house, an alien world, a medieval village, and shows you how to make the pieces of each. There are breakdowns of how a good build actually works, tricks the LEGO designers use, and step-by-step photos for the trickier bits. It's written by one of the people who made LEGO sets for a living, so the advice is the real stuff. A child reads it in bursts: build a thing, come back, find the next thing.
This is the next helping for a child who's already caught the building bug. It asks a little more of them than a pure picture book, because it explains why a build holds together, but it never asks them to sit and read a wall of words. Every idea pays off in something they made with their own hands, which is exactly the deal a reluctant reader will take.