Attention! Explosion!

by Moira Butterfield, Kenny Kiernan (Illustrator)

Build your LEGO library!A new LEGO City reader, timed to tie into the new theme for Summer 2012, mining. There will be some caves, dark tunnels, and lots of digging--maybe even for gold!

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction

32 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2012

About the author

I wrote my first book when I was 8 years old. I glued photos of my cats in a blank book and wrote about them, too. Now I am an internationally-published children's author commended by the Library of Congress for my work encouraging children to read.
I write in a room between a deli and an art gallery on a small town street. I can see families walking by, and I can hear children laughing and playing. It helps me to remember what exactly I'm doing this for - creating books for families all over the world to use together, and helping children to love words.

Reviews

[Aleta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a female in sight. It appears that all gold miners are male. Boo.

[midnightfaerie · Rating 3 out of 5]

What kid doesn't love Lego? A strong level 1 reading book for beginner's, it was on the easy side for my 5 yr old, but he's used to level 2 books now. Still, it was the beginning of reading on his own, while I got breakfast ready, and then I just quizzed him after about the contents to make sure he read it. This reading on his own is a new thing, but I appreciate any book to facilitate that idea!

[Chris · Rating 1 out of 5]

Like other books in this series, this one has no female characters at all. LEGO world seems to be a very segregated place.

[Courtney · Rating 2 out of 5]

My children love these little books. They thoroughly enjoy each and every story, as if they are all unique and individual without any cause for similarity among them. Even though sometimes, they might seem tedious and repetitive to me as a parent, I do enjoy being able to read short-stories to my children that are clean and respective.

[Wade · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect the way it is

[Cynthia Varady · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for early readers and lovers of lego. Just watch out. Your kids are probably going to want you to buy the set advertised on the back.

[Angie Schmidt · Rating 3 out of 5]

7 year old likes this. Mom thinks it's kind of dumb.

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great book

[Sarang Ranade · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked the big big machines how they blew up the cave to get the diamonds

[Tracey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short and sweet with puns so bad they're good. The favourite amongst the Lego City series with the young readers in our home.

[Viviane Elbee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kids who love legos, puns, digging and explosions will like learning to read with this one

[Radonna Griesman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ben enjoyed the puns.

[Neko · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy to read and that's the whole point of it. This book can be used for educational reasons which is great when you've got a child who dislikes reading the normal boring books. I would've loved to read these books about lego characters when I was growing up.

Simple and easy to read. Plus very short which is great when teaching a child to read.

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basic Plot: Lego miners dig for gold.

My son is very into Legos right now, so he grabbed this from the library when it caught his eye. The art is very cartoony and fun. The rocks all look like Lego pieces, keeping the theme going. There are also a lot of REALLY groan-worthy puns. It's pretty straightforward and a decent beginning reader book, but not terribly memorable other than the puns.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

My five-year-old son thought it was a very cool book. I thought it was a little forced & punny.

[Jess · Rating 2 out of 5]

April 2017 - on the upside, it's short and punny. On the downside, not a single female character.

[Heather]

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