Books About Town – Benches We’ve Seen

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes (back)

1984 (back)

Day of the Triffids (back)

The James Bond Books

Peter Pan (first bench)

That’s not my Meerkat

Shakespeare’s Globe

Us with Shakespeare

Shakespeare (back)

Great Expectations

Paddington

The Creature on the Trail

Discworld

Dr. Suess

How to Train your Dragon

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland (back)

Clarice Bean

Clarice Bean (detail)

Clarice Bean (back)

Katie in London

Naughts and Crosses

A Brief History of Time

Stormbreaker

The Wind in the Willows

Peter Pan (second bench)

Peter Pan (second bench – back)

Fever Pitch

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins (back)

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (back)

Hitching a ride (with a Babelfish)

Hitching a ride…

Books About Town is an initiative to showcase authors and books by placing 50 benches painted by different artists in a variety of styles celebrating famous works around town during the summer of 2014. When we were there, we managed to track down half of them (although we couldn’t get pictures of all of them since some of them were actually in use as benches.