What is it about LEGO bricks that make them so hard for everyone to put down? In LEGO: A Love Story author Jonathan Bender searches for answers and adventure sets him out to explore the quirky world of Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOL) while becoming a builder himself. Bender gets into the LEGO fan’s head as he participates in challenges at fan conventions, searches for the largest private collection in the United States, and visits LEGO headquarters.

Right now, there are 62 LEGO bricks for every person in the world, and at age 30, Jonathan Bender author of LEGO: A Love Story (Wiley, ISBN: 978-0-470-40702-8, Cloth / $24.95, May 2010) realized that he didn’t own a single one of them. While reconsidering his childhood dream of becoming a Master Model Builder for The LEGO Group, he discovers the men and women who are skewing the averages with collections of hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks.

In LEGO: A Love Story, author Bender searches for answers and adventure sets him out to explore the quirky world of Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOL) while becoming a builder himself. As he participates in challenges at fan conventions, searches for the largest private collection in the United States, and visits LEGO headquarters (where he was allowed into the set vault), he finds his LEGO journey twinned with a second creative endeavor - to have a child.

LEGO: A Love Story intertwines as he awaits the outcome: Will he win a build competition or bring a new fan of LEGO into the world? Will he become a dad? Like every great love story, this one has surprises and a happy ending.

Some interesting facts about Lego –

• LEGO is an abbreviation of the two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well"
• The famous LEGO brick is now 50 years old
• In 2006 the LEGO  website had an average of 8,137,062 individual visitors a month
• The LEGO  Club has 2.4m members worldwide
• Approx. seven LEGO sets are sold each second
• Laid end to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold yearly would reach more than 5 times round the world

 LEGO: A Love Story includes over 20 color photos.