Lego City Adventures: Help Is on the Way!

Lego City Adventures: Help Is on the Way!
by
Sonia Sander
ages 4-6
Scholastic Reader, level 1, 50-250 words, sight words, words to sound out & simple sentences.

I thought from the title and the cover that this would be a book for boys, but it turns out that the main character is a Lego girl and she is trying to help her Lego dog, so both boys and girls should like this book. The pictures look like Legos in a shameless marketing of the beloved classic toy. In the back cover there is a photograph of the play set that one can purchase to act out the story. If it gets a kid to pick up a book and read it, then shameless marketing is okay by me. I am reminded that the Cheerios Counting Book and M & M Counting Book are also very popular.
This is a cheap, colorful, easy-to-read book that a school library or public library can make available to young readers.

Lego Star Wars the Visual Dictionary

Lego Star Wars the Visual Dictionary
nonfiction for children or adults

Let the salivating begin. This is a natural fit for just about every library in America. Legos have a huge fan base. Star Wars has a huge fan base. The Lego Star Wars video games have a huge fan base. There will be quite a few people who will check this one out. Others will browse through it in the library.

I am torn between wanting everything in the book and protesting - "but you are supposed to use your imagination and make up your own stuff with lego". Either way, I probably couldn't assemble a number of items pictured in this colorful book

http://starwars.lego.com/en-US/default.aspx