By DK
Five hundred things to build out of the LEGO already dumped across the floor.
This is the fat idea book for the child who has the bricks but has run out of things to make. It's split into themed chapters, transport, buildings, space, kingdoms, adventure, and clever useful makes, and every page is packed with photographs of finished models with the pieces called out beside them. It doesn't march you through one giant build with numbered steps. It shows you a jet, a fortress, a working little drawer, and says here's the idea, now go. Your child reads a page the way they'd read a menu: pick the thing they want, then build it.
The child who'd rather build than read will still turn every page of this, because every page is a thing they want to make. The text is short, captioned, and always attached to a picture, so a reluctant reader is reading without the part that usually feels like reading. And it's over two million copies in the world for a reason: the ideas are good, and they use ordinary bricks, not a special set you have to buy.