The Venice Library – “X marks the spot…” by 2MuchCaffeine
MrWhiskersMainView by Teddy(Johan)
LEGO books and LEGO bookshelves can be built and presented in a variety of succesful ways, as these builders have demonstrated.
LEGO Books
There are a variety of ways to portray a book with LEGO. One of the most obvious is by using part # 33009,the 2×3 book that first started showing up in 1997 in lots of the sets that were primarily marketed to girls: the Belville stuff, the dollhouse stuff. More recently they’ve appeared in a number of the Harry Potter sets.
Another good method is to use a variety of different-colored 1×2 or 2×2 tiles set into a bookshelf to give the appearance of a full shelf of books. This is the method that 2MuchCaffeine and Teddy(Johan) used in the first two pictures above.
I also like the effective way BrickTales had both types of books on his shelf above, plus using the printed 2×2 tiles to depicting individual pages being written.
LEGO Bookshelves
In the examples above, we see some standalone bookshelves as well as some built into walls. For the standalone, brown makes a good representation of wood, and the builders have integrated a number of ingenious uses of brown pieces … minifig legs, minifig heads, etc. I also like BrickTales’ use of arches in the built-into-the-wall bookshelves.
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