LEGO manufacturers the Kristiansen family
"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 comp...
| Main Author: | Slater, Lee, 1969- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing,
[2016]
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| Series: |
Toy trailblazers
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| Summary: |
"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." -- Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: |
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781624039775 1624039774 |