By Daniel Lipkowitz
The gentlest, youngest of the LEGO idea books, built around what you can do with just a small pile of bricks.
This is the one to reach for when your child is younger, or when the LEGO bin isn't very big yet. Its whole promise is bringing bricks to life through play, not building the most complicated model. There are ten-minute builds for a short attention span, a running 'handful of bricks' feature that shows what you can make when you only have a few pieces, and 'cool brick' tips for getting more out of a single odd-shaped part. The models are photographed finished, with the bricks pointed out beside them, and the tone leans into making up stories and playing with what you build rather than following steps. It's the friendliest doorway of the DK LEGO books.
A younger builder gets overwhelmed by a fat book of hundreds of ambitious models. This one meets them lower down: short builds, a few bricks, and an invitation to play with the result. Every page is a picture with a short caption, so there's almost nothing to read and everything to do. For the four-to-eight-year-old at the start of the LEGO obsession, this is the idea book that won't feel like too much.