LEGO Manufacturers

By Lee Slater

Part of the Toy Trailblazers series

Discover the journey from wooden toys to the iconic LEGO brick.

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32 pages· 2,403 words· Est. 19 min read-aloud

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Bookroo's summary

Explore the Kristiansen family's transformation from a small Danish carpentry shop to the global LEGO empire. Follow Ole Kirk Christiansen's legacy as his family innovates with plastic bricks, leading to the creation of LEGOLAND. Uncover the secrets behind the LEGO name and the evolution of their iconic products. What challenges did they face, and how did they overcome them to build a world of imagination?

From the publisher

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 expands to LEGOLAND. Learn how LEGO bricks are made, who came up with the name, how the family name came to be spelled with a K, and about other LEGO Group products. Sidebars, historic photos, and a glossary enhance readers’ understanding of this topic. Additional features include a table of contents, an index, a timeline and fun facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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