Rated By Kids

Book: Hardback
Dorling Kindersley

We are very excited to offer up this wonderful contest to our followers! Thanks to Chris at DK Canada, he is kindly providing us with a set of either LEGO Brickmaster Pirates or the LEGO Brickmaster Castle as an awesome prize to one lucky winner.

To enter, please leave you email address below and tell us (briefly) if you have a favourite pirate or castle related book, movie, toy or story. You must be a follower to enter. This contest is open to Canadian addresses only but if you live outside of this area we encourage you to go check out these great products! (Check out Melissa and Jacob's review of the Brickmaster Castle to see why.)

Contest closes January 15th, 2010.
For every tweet, blog post/sidebar link you get an extra entry (just provide a link)

The fine print: E-mail addresses provided will be submitted to DK to be added to their newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time after the contest has ended (though we here at Rated By Kids think you should stay on their list; they have such wonderful, colourful books, toys, etc. for ages 0-100 that it's great to see what's up and coming from them!) 

Good luck to all!

Publisher: DK Children

Released: September 1, 2009

Book: Hardback, 48 pages

Ages: 7 - 15 years




From Publisher:

Building bricks and books come together in this fantastic set. With more than 140 LEGO ® bricks and two minifigures, LEGO ® aficionados can build to their heart's content. The hardcover book features easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions on how to build castle or pirate models. Or, young builders can come up with their own fantasy castles or pirate lairs for the ages! Dynamic full-color photos and clear illustrations make this the perfect book-and-toy set for all LEGO ® fans. There's no end to the creative building options for young LEGO ® Brickmasters ™ everywhere!

Jacob's thoughts:

I liked how easy it was to read the instructions so I could build everything. When I made my first castle, I had so much fun building and playing with it. I really liked that you could build lots of different sets. Lego is so much fun because you can build anything you want.

Mom's thoughts:

I wish every Lego set was like this! The "cover" is actually a box that holds all the Lego pieces and lists all pieces included in the set, while the pages of the book inside contain the instruction booklets. I know we have a drawer filled with various booklets from other sets and after the first build they hardly get used again. With this Lego set, the Lego pieces & booklets are kept nice & safe. Another bonus is that the Lego pieces in the set are used to make 13 different models & 7 different scenes. Included with each scene is a little paragraph describing the scene. My son would make one model then flip the page & start the building process all over again.I'm not sure how many times he's built each scene, it really is endless fun! Currently there are only two versions (Castle and Pirate) but I am hoping to see more in the future. I would have to say this is one of my favorite toys of 2009.