BookBenches around London! The new collecting craze!

Illustrated BookBenches have arrived to London over the weekend!

Do you remember the Elephant? Eggs? Or Wenlock and Mandeville from the London Olympics? These figures were spread all over London and it was fun to find them all around town! :)

Faberge Eggs around London (source Guardian)

Wenlock and Mandeville took over town (source DailyMail)

Baby Elephant Statues around London (source Telegraph)

This year forget about all of the aforementioned things! This year benches took over London...well we have many benches around town, where one can sit down to relax, or enjoy the sun, maybe to read...but these benches are special, thus they are called Book-Benches.

Under the National Literacy Trust's (NLT) and Wild in Art 's Books About Town project, 50 open-book shaped benches were distributed around London in specific places! They all depict wellknown books, that has some kind of connection to London or England.
For example Paddington Bear is on one of them.

Paddington Bear Book Bench London

Besides Paddington Bear, there are different themes like; Dr Seuss (pictured below), James Bond, The Gruffalo, Dickens, Bridget Jones' Diary, Great Expectations and of course Sherlock Holmes amongst other famous books.

Dr Seuss Book Bench London

They will be with us for the whole summer, so get your shoes on and go check them all out!
There are 4 main designated areas where you can find them all. They are Greenwich, City, Riverside and Bloomsbury. If you are a bit of the lazy ones and prefer to have everything on a map, instead of finding them through exploring the area, then not to worry either! NLT has created maps for each location, just click above on the part of London you are interested.

Have fun finding these beautifully illustrated BookBenches! :)

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