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'''''Anna Miranda and Mark Build a House: A Lego Legend''''' is a 1965 [[Wikipedia:Children's literature|children's]] [[Wikipedia:Picture book|picture book]] published by [[British Lego Limited]].
'''''Anna Miranda and Mark Build a House: A Lego Legend''''' is a 1965 [[Wikipedia:Children's literature|children's]] [[Wikipedia:Picture book|picture book]] published by [[British Lego Limited]].


The book was available for one shilling.<ref>{{cite newsgroup |url=https://news.lugnet.com/loc/uk/?n=7658 |title=Re: Lego Blueprints Query & Weetabix Promo House Instructions |author=Phil Traviss |date=16 January 2002 |newsgroup=lugnet.loc.uk |website=[[LUGNET]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240713061115/https://news.lugnet.com/loc/uk/?n=7658 |archive-date=13 July 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
The book was available for one [[Wikipedia:Shilling (British coin)|shilling]] (£0.05 GBP).<ref name="Traviss"/> It featured two blueprints, part of a series of six.<ref name="Hughes"/> It was advertised in LEGO catalogues in the United Kingdom during 1966 and 1967, where it was listed as "Lego Story Book", alongside an eighty-page ''Ideas Book''.<ref>{{cite book |title=1966 Large UK |type=Catalogu |year=1966 |url=https://images.brickset.com/library/view/?f=catalogues/c66uk |publisher=British Lego Limited |page=13 |id=3151-Eng}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=1967 Large UK |type=Catalogu |year=1967 |url=https://images.brickset.com/library/view/?f=catalogues/c67uk |publisher=British Lego Limited |page=13 |id=3151-En.}}</ref> By 1968 the story book had been discontinued, though the ideas book remained available.<ref>{{cite book |title=Assortment '68 |type=Catalogue |year=1968 |url=https://images.brickset.com/library/view/?f=catalogues/c68uk |publisher=British Lego Limited |page=8 |id=3310-England}}</ref>
 
''Anna Miranda and Mark Build a House'' was advertised in LEGO catalogues in the United Kingdom during 1966 and 1967, where it was listed as "Lego Story Book", alongside an eighty-page ''Ideas Book''
<ref>{{cite book |title=1966 Large UK |type=Catalogu |year=1966 |url=https://images.brickset.com/library/view/?f=catalogues/c66uk |publisher=British Lego Limited |page=13 |id=3151-Eng}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=1967 Large UK |type=Catalogu |year=1967 |url=https://images.brickset.com/library/view/?f=catalogues/c67uk |publisher=British Lego Limited |page=13 |id=3151-En.}}</ref> By 1968 the story book had been discontinued, though the ideas book remained available.<ref>{{cite book |title=Assortment '68 |type=Catalogue |year=1968 |url=https://images.brickset.com/library/view/?f=catalogues/c68uk |publisher=British Lego Limited |page=8 |id=3310-England}}</ref>


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
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== References ==
== References ==
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<ref name="Hughes">{{cite web |url=http://www.brickfetish.com/ideas/uk/blueprint_1964.html |title=Blueprint instruction sheets |website=Brick Fetish |first=Jim |last=Hughes |year=2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240713083621/http://www.brickfetish.com/ideas/uk/blueprint_1964.html |archive-date=2024-07-13}}</ref>
<ref name="Traviss">{{cite newsgroup |url=https://news.lugnet.com/loc/uk/?n=7658 |title=Re: Lego Blueprints Query & Weetabix Promo House Instructions |author=Phil Traviss |date=16 January 2002 |newsgroup=lugnet.loc.uk |website=[[LUGNET]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240713061115/https://news.lugnet.com/loc/uk/?n=7658 |archive-date=13 July 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
 
== External links ==
* [https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=386762 Scan by grimmy-lego] on [[Brickshelf]]


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[[Category:1965 books]]
[[Category:British books‎]]
[[Category:LEGO books]]
[[Category:LEGO books]]

Revision as of 09:52, 13 July 2024

Anna Miranda and Mark Build a House: A Lego Legend
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's book
PublisherBritish Lego Limited
Publication date
1965
Media typePrint (booklet)
Pages24

Anna Miranda and Mark Build a House: A Lego Legend is a 1965 children's picture book published by British Lego Limited.

The book was available for one shilling (£0.05 GBP).[1] It featured two blueprints, part of a series of six.[2] It was advertised in LEGO catalogues in the United Kingdom during 1966 and 1967, where it was listed as "Lego Story Book", alongside an eighty-page Ideas Book.[3][4] By 1968 the story book had been discontinued, though the ideas book remained available.[5]

Summary

The story follows Anna-Miranda and Mark, the twin children of a wood-cutter.

References

  1. Phil Traviss (16 January 2002). "Re: Lego Blueprints Query & Weetabix Promo House Instructions". LUGNET. Newsgrouplugnet.loc.uk. Archived from the original on 13 July 2024.
  2. Hughes, Jim (2009). "Blueprint instruction sheets". Brick Fetish. Archived from the original on 2024-07-13.
  3. 1966 Large UK (Catalogu). British Lego Limited. 1966. p. 13. 3151-Eng.
  4. 1967 Large UK (Catalogu). British Lego Limited. 1967. p. 13. 3151-En.
  5. Assortment '68 (Catalogue). British Lego Limited. 1968. p. 8. 3310-England.

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