Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.
Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.
An informative book for young and young-at-heart LEGO Star Wars fans, it includes an exclusive Minifig of one of Unkar Plutt's brutish enforcers from Episode VII. It's full of facts about characters and kits released over the more than two decades that LEGO has been releasing licensed sets.
Aanvullende informatie die leuk meegenomen is voor de liefhebber. Het kan de verzamelaar die op zoek is naar cruciale info misschien niet bekoren, maar de prachtige foto's, graphics, figures and numbers maken van dit boek wel een leuke aankoop. Er staan zelfs al foto's in van sets die LEGO nog niet heeft vrijgegeven, dus heeft het een zelfs een paar primeurs in zich. Enkel het extra figuurtje valt misschien wat tegen. Liever hadden we een bekender gezichtje gezien in een iets zeldzamere uitvoering.
I read this aloud to my children. They can read but enjoyed listening anyway. For an adult, or at least for me, there wasn't much to interest me in this book. But for children, fans of Star Wars and of Lego, the book is a lot of fun. My son's favourite part is always the quiz, to figure out where you would stand in that universe. It was set up in a way to make it simple for you get readers and presented in a way to make simple facts seem dramatic. A fun book for children.