How to Build LEGO Animals

Go on a Journey to Become a Better Builder

Discover how to build your own awesome LEGO® Animals!

Be inspired by 30 incredible LEGO animals, from a roaring lion to a multi-colored turtle. 

Embark on an imaginative building journey as the models get more challenging through the book. 

Each animal idea is broken down into three, four, or five important building steps.

Learn essential building techniques to create claws and teeth, legs and tails, textures and colors and much more, for your own wonderful creations.

You can build anything!

 ©2023 The LEGO Group.
Jessica Farrell is a professional Brick Artist from Ireland who has loved playing with LEGO pieces since the age of four. Her creations have been exhibited internationally and she has produced many notable commissioned works. Jessica lives in a little house on the bog along with her family and several million LEGO pieces.

Hannah Dolan is a writer and editor. She has written and created all kinds of bestselling LEGO books, including the LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia, the LEGO NINJAGO Visual Dictionary, and the LEGO Minifigure Handbook. She is based in Cambridgeshire, where she spends many a weekend building LEGO models with her partner and young children. View titles by Jessica Farrell
Hannah Dolan has been a senior editor at DK since 2008. Before that, she was an editorial project manager at Wearset Limited. Dolan earned a BA in English literature from Newcastle University. View titles by Hannah Dolan
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Discover how to build your own awesome LEGO® Animals!

Be inspired by 30 incredible LEGO animals, from a roaring lion to a multi-colored turtle. 

Embark on an imaginative building journey as the models get more challenging through the book. 

Each animal idea is broken down into three, four, or five important building steps.

Learn essential building techniques to create claws and teeth, legs and tails, textures and colors and much more, for your own wonderful creations.

You can build anything!

 ©2023 The LEGO Group.

Author

Jessica Farrell is a professional Brick Artist from Ireland who has loved playing with LEGO pieces since the age of four. Her creations have been exhibited internationally and she has produced many notable commissioned works. Jessica lives in a little house on the bog along with her family and several million LEGO pieces.

Hannah Dolan is a writer and editor. She has written and created all kinds of bestselling LEGO books, including the LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia, the LEGO NINJAGO Visual Dictionary, and the LEGO Minifigure Handbook. She is based in Cambridgeshire, where she spends many a weekend building LEGO models with her partner and young children. View titles by Jessica Farrell
Hannah Dolan has been a senior editor at DK since 2008. Before that, she was an editorial project manager at Wearset Limited. Dolan earned a BA in English literature from Newcastle University. View titles by Hannah Dolan

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