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Build with bricks to Create Beasts and Cars

Quarto Publishing Group USA, formed in 2004, creates and publishes illustrated books in North America and sells co-editions of them internationally. Subject categories include home improvement, gardening, practical arts and crafts, children’s books, transportation, graphic arts, food and drink, sports, military history, Americana, health and body, lifestyle, pets, and music.


 

How to Build Brick Cars :

Detailed LEGO® Designs for Sports Cars, Race Cars, and Muscle Cars

ISBN: 97808760352656

THE WORLD’S BEST CARS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HANDS

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, start up your engines and bust out your bricks! How to Build Brick Cars is here with over a dozen fully realized builds of classic and contemporary sports cars, race cars and muscle cars. It’s great fun for petrol heads and if you’re looking for your next real car, check out this Wichita Nissan Pathfinder dealer.

They represent a range of different cars manufacturers from around the world including the United States, England, Germany, France, Italy and Japan.

Inside, you’ll find detailed, full-color illustrations and step-by-step instructions for such classic and contemporary vehicles as a 1932 Ford hot V-8, Citroën 2CV Charleston, Ferrari 250, Jaguar E-Type, Ford F-150 Raptor and Bugatti Veyron.

Featuring informative and historical text about each car with builds designed exclusively by renowned custom builder Peter Blackert.

 


BEASTS FROM BRICKS :

Amazing LEGO® Designs for Animals from Around the World – With 15 step-by-step Projects

ISBN: 9781631592997

CAPTURE THE WORLD’S WILDLIFE WITH LEGO®

In Beasts from Bricks, LEGO artist Ekow Nimako shares 15 designs for creating a menagerie of wild animals with LEGO bricks.

The fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions show how to build a remarkable collection of animals from around the world.

-Africa: African Elephant, Roan Antelope and Hippopotamus

-Europe: Suffolk Sheep and European Bison

-Asia: Giant Panda and Indian Rhinoceros

-Arctic: Harp Seal and Walrus

-North America: White-tailed Jackrabbit and Kermode Bear

– South and Central America: Giant Anteater and Peale’s Dolphin

– Australia: Koala and Bare-nosed Wombat

 

Each set of instructions includes entertaining and educational information about the animal’s characteristics and habitat. Also included is a bonus gallery of Nikamo’s more complex and large-scale animal designs.

Wait until you see them for yourself. Absolutely breathtaking!

 


Blogger’s Review

These books are seriously amazing! Hours of fun guaranteed with so many designs to build. They look very realistic and intricate, you’ll be able to brag to your friends that you made them.

The instructions are very similar to those from LEGO so both newbies and veteran builders will find them easy to follow. Not only you get to build awesome creatures and cars, but you also get to learn about each of the designs with the included educational and historical texts. They also feature lists of all the pieces required for the builds, including official LEGO pieces numbers for you to order them from their online shop.

Whether you are a beginner or a pro and want to extend your knowledge on building with blocks, these books are for you!

Be sure to look out for the other books in the series.

Also available:

  • Birds from Bricks
  • Animation Lab for Kids
  • Math Lab for Kids
  • Unofficial Minecraft Lab for Kids

 

 

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13 Comments

  1. Carole D says:

    This sounds like a great book. We have lots of Lego’s, that would be lots of fun!

  2. Lynda Cook says:

    These look like great books for the kids!

  3. Sherry moffitt says:

    My grandson would absolutely love these books . There would be endless hours of fun.

  4. Anne Taylor says:

    These books look amazing. My grandson is a bit young for them yet, but he’d definitely love them in the near future!

  5. ellen beck says:

    LOVE this! I like the creativity Legos encourages but this takes it to a whole different level almost like model building. I have a nephew that would really enjoy this book.

  6. Florence Cochrane says:

    Love how you can capture wildlife using legos in the books. Very interesting.

  7. kathy downey says:

    This sure sounds like a fun book to be creative with !

  8. Amina Absar Zafar says:

    creative book

  9. Katy Waldegrave says:

    This sounds like a great book. I love a rainy afternoon building something out of Lego with my kids!

  10. Laurie P says:

    Definitely a book my son would love to have!

  11. Elizabeth Matthiesen says:

    I should think that my son would love this – mind you he is 40 (still a kid at heart) and he’s infected my grandchildren too. 🙂

  12. Alison Braidwood says:

    I think my nieces would love the dinosaur book. They’re a little too tech-obsessed and this would make for some good tech downtime.

  13. Judy Cowan says:

    These sounds like great books, my nephew would like the Brick Car one.

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