In an effort to promote literacy and add artistic flair to the city, the National Literacy Trust and Wild in Art have collaborated on a public art project called Books About Town. As of right now, there are dozens of benches shaped like open books, boasting colorful illustrations, throughout the streets of London.

The 50 BookBench sculptures created for the project will be on display along four trails (which can be viewed and downloaded here) until October.
On October 7th they will be sold at a public auction, with all proceeds going to the National Literacy Trust—a charity dedicated to raising the literacy levels of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK.

To see a full list of the books and artists represented, be sure to check out Books About Town’s website.
http://www.booksabouttown.org.uk/

1984 – George Orwell

Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

Dr Suess – Theodor Seuss Geisel

Jeeves and Wooster Stories – P.G. Wodehouse

Mary Poppins- P.L.Travers

Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman

On the Origin of Species – Charles Darwin

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis

The little white bird – J.M. Barrie

The Time Machine – H.G. Wells (back)

The Time Machine – H.G. Wells (front)

War Horse – Michael Morpurgo

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