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October 4, 2016 by Travis Jonker

Name that LEGO Book Cover!

October 4, 2016 by Travis Jonker   22 comments

LEGOs and children’s literature have come together in the past with some pretty great results.

Who can forget the LEGO Pigeon by Mark Anderson?

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Or these LEGO creations by Hilary Leung?

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I used this website to (virtually) create some LEGO book covers. See how many you can get.

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About Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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  1. tommfranklin says

    October 4, 2016 at 10:01 am

    Genius idea — I’m sure there will be a book full of these one day.

  2. Sondy says

    October 4, 2016 at 10:57 am

    I’m curious: Did you actually build these with Lego? Or is there a computer program out there that Lego-fies images? Either way, very cool! If you did it physically, that’s an impressive amount of work, too!

    • Travis Jonker says

      October 4, 2016 at 11:38 am

      Hi Sondy – I did not build them. I went to a website called brickit.co. The site does let you download plans for how to build the images too

  3. Jane says

    October 4, 2016 at 12:58 pm

    Totally fun.

  4. tommfranklin says

    October 4, 2016 at 1:28 pm

    And I totally, um, * borrowed * the idea and posted some covers over at my blog. (Giving you proper credit for the idea, of course)

    http://tommfranklin.blogspot.com/2016/10/brickifying-book-covers.html

    • Travis Jonker says

      October 5, 2016 at 1:52 pm

      That’s great!

  5. Rebecca says

    October 4, 2016 at 2:56 pm

    Five out of seven. Not bad!

  6. Lisa says

    October 4, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    I only got two – Last Stop on Market Street and The Snowy Day. Definitely fun, though. 🙂

  7. Marcie Haloin says

    October 4, 2016 at 8:43 pm

    I only got three – the same two as Lisa and No David. Still fun.

  8. Benji says

    October 4, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    I missed Bud, not Buddy ???

  9. Tom M Franklin says

    October 4, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    Later this afternoon it occurred to me this should be applied to iconic album covers as well. Here’s five from my past — can you guess what any of them are?

    http://fivecats.livejournal.com/257674.html

  10. marjorie says

    October 4, 2016 at 11:27 pm

    OUR COPY OF THE BFG HAS A DIFFERENT COVER. (This is my way of saying I only got four out of seven and am wildly competitive and resentful.)

    (Seriously, Travis, this is AMAZEBALLS.)

    • Travis Jonker says

      October 5, 2016 at 1:51 pm

      Not sure I’ve ever received that compliment before – thank you

  11. Theresa says

    October 5, 2016 at 1:34 am

    Very Cool!! Thank you for sharing. Going to try this with my class.

  12. Arika Dickens says

    October 5, 2016 at 9:24 am

    6/7 for me. The last was tough, likely because it was a white background instead of light blue.
    My 2nd and 4th graders got 4/7.
    Super fun. Thanks for sharing!

  13. Danielle says

    October 5, 2016 at 1:24 pm

    Love this! I hope you don’t mind that I used your idea as inspiration to create a Kahoot it for my middle schoolers! https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/c8dd64ec-962a-4c0c-8cc8-88c5d8b6434d

    • Travis Jonker says

      October 5, 2016 at 1:48 pm

      That’s awesome!

  14. Kari says

    October 5, 2016 at 1:44 pm

    Did you edit the book cover (remove or change some of the colors) a little after you uploaded the picture to make it a little more challenging? I love the idea so I am trying it, but it seems like all the covers I have uploaded, students would know too quickly.

    • Travis Jonker says

      October 5, 2016 at 1:48 pm

      Under the Mosaic Size I changed the number of BasePlates to a lower number – that should make it more difficult

  15. Pat Connor says

    October 6, 2016 at 5:50 pm

    May I use some of your book covers for a “Guess the Book” program at our public library in Rochester NY?
    Thanks. These are totally awesome.
    Pat

    • Travis Jonker says

      October 7, 2016 at 12:50 pm

      Absolutely!

  16. Jill Bean says

    October 7, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    I missed Bud, not Buddy and The BFG, but the others jumped right out at me! Fun!

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