Eleven warriors are drawn on these pages with their armour missing. The stickers are the armour. A child finds the right plate, the right shield, the right helmet, presses it into place, and a bare figure turns into a Viking raider wading ashore or a samurai mid swing under falling cherry blossom.

Then there is a reason to keep reading, which is the part most sticker books skip. Every warrior has a paragraph and a STATISTICS panel giving his homeland, the battle he is fighting, the century and his weapons. Ragnar Redbeard comes out of Scandinavia to the coast of northeastern England in the eighth century with a battle axe and a spear. Marcus Severus holds a line in southeastern England in the first century with a short sword and a throwing spear. Torii keeps his nerve in sixteenth century Kyoto with a katana and a short sword.

The full cast runs from marauding Vikings and invincible Mongols to unbreakable Spartans and lethal samurai, and the cover promises over 180 stickers to finish them with. The pages are large, about 12.0 by 9.4 in, so the figures are big enough to sticker without a struggle, and the book is flat and light enough to go in a bag for a car journey or a waiting room.

Same series, same big pages, same statistics panel on every figure: Build Your Own Trains, Build Your Own Monster Trucks and Build Your Own Greek Gods.

Paperback, 44 pages, written by Simon Tudhope and illustrated by Gong Studios, in the Build Your Own Sticker Book series. Usborne Publishing, 2025. ISBN-13 9781836052593. Publisher age guidance: 5 years and up.