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Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the manufacturers of LEGO, the Kristiansen Family. Follow the family's story from Denmark where Ole Kirk Christiansen began making wooden toys in his Billund Carpentry Shop and Lumberyard to the company's evolution to the LEGO company. Christiansen and his sons Godtfred, Karl, and Gerhardt purchase a machine that makes plastic toys, and create the LEGO brick, and his grandson Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 418 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary inside story of the LEGO company--producer of the most beloved and popular toy on the planet--based on unprecedented access to the founding family that still owns the company, chronicling the brand's improbable journey to become the empire that it is today"--
Author
Series
From an idea to volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For fans of the successful Who Was series, From an Idea to Lego is a behind-the-bricks look into the world's famous toy company, with humorous black & white illustrations throughout. Today, LEGO is one of the biggest toy companies in the world, but a long time ago, a Danish carpenter, Ole Kirk Christiansen, started with just an idea. Find out more about LEGO's origins, those famous bricks, and their other inventive toys and movie ventures in this...
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