Anna Miranda and Mark Build a House
| Anna Miranda and Mark Build a House: A Lego Legend | |
|---|---|
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's book |
| Publisher | British Lego Limited |
Publication date | 1965 |
| Media type | Print (booklet) |
| Pages | 24 |
Anna Miranda and Mark Build a House: A Lego Legend is a 1965 children's picture book published by British Lego Limited. Its author and illustrator are currently unknown. The book was sold in the United Kingdom through 1967.
Summary
The story follows Anna-Miranda and Mark, the twin children of a wood-cutter and his wife who live in a hut. One day, the two children find a "Most Unusual Boat" that starts sailing on its own when they board it. The magic boat takes them to a Lego palace where they meet O'gel the Wise of Ballydooley, an elderly wizard with a "Most Unusual Hat". O'gel is sad because he has no children to share his home with, but cheers up when he gets a chance to play with Anna-Miranda and Mark. When the two children need to go home, O'gel teaches them a magic spell that will turn acorns into Lego bricks they can use to build a new house. The two perform the spell in the night, and the next day the family wakes up to find many Lego bricks. Anna-Miranda, Mark, and their father spend the day building a Lego house for them all to live in.
Release
Anna Miranda and Mark Build a House was released in 1965 and was priced at one shilling (£0.05 GBP).[1] The book came with an eight-page set of blueprints detailing how to build two LEGO models from the story: the Most Unusual Boat and the house. These were done in a similar style to a series of four "Lego blueprint" released earlier that year; these blueprints sold for one penny (1⁄12 of one shilling) each and were, in order, "Windmill", "Boatbouse", "London Bus", and "Astronaut and Cosmic Ray Regenerator".[2][1]
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.[3][4] By 1968 the story book had been discontinued, though the ideas book remained available.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Phil Traviss (16 January 2002). "Re: Lego Blueprints Query & Weetabix Promo House Instructions". LUGNET. Newsgroup: lugnet.loc.uk. Archived from the original on 13 July 2024.
- ↑ Hughes, Jim (2009). "Blueprint instruction sheets". Brick Fetish. Archived from the original on 2024-07-13.
- ↑ 1966 Large UK (Catalogue). British Lego Limited. April 1966. p. 13. 3151-Eng.
- ↑ 1967 Large UK (Catalogue). British Lego Limited. 1967. p. 13. 3151-En.
- ↑ Assortment '68 (Catalogue). British Lego Limited. 1968. p. 8. 3310-England.
