Built to Last by the fabulous author, Minh Lê, and the amazing illustrator, Dan Santat (no, I’m not biased at all), is an adorable story about friendship and the true and important things that cannot be broken. Sure things might fall and crash, and that can sometimes be funny, but there are few things that cannot have a do-over. Most things are able to have a fresh start, mostly because you have learned from any mistakes and know what is really important.
The narrator is our bespectacled main character (his buddy has a tuft of slightly wild black hair), who lets us know what has happened up to the “big event” by showing us the “flashbacks” of how we have gotten to the end of the story. It started with a Big Bang (the two bumped into each other while building with some blocks) and it ran away from there. The building of their friendship happens as they build all sorts of fun things (boats, dragons, Godzilla-like monsters, bridges) and they all tumble down. But the friendship creation is the one thing that is built to last. 
The sweet, fun and colorful illustrations are their own character and support the text as well. They are a mixture of fantasy and realism in Santat’s signature style. When the two best friends are imagining sailing the ocean, being attacked by a dragon, the smoothness of things will then come to be shown as a realistic kite and statue and the “boat” paper and tape. The best part of them is the colors. What is used allows everything to pop off the page. 
A good for all ages to read (to be read to, early with help or have been reading readers), this book is available and was read via an online reader copy.