Fifty unique 'BookBenches' designed by well-known artists and
illustrators and inspired by books, including children's classics Peter
Pan, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Lauren Child's Clarice
Bean stories, have raised more than £250,000 at auction for the
National Literacy Trust.
illustrators and inspired by books, including children's classics Peter
Pan, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Lauren Child's Clarice
Bean stories, have raised more than £250,000 at auction for the
National Literacy Trust.
The Jeeves and Wooster bench painted by Gordon Allum achieved the highest sale at £9,500. The proceeds will help the trust to run literacy projects for disadvantaged children.
Speaking after the auction at the Southbank Centre, children's laureate Malorie Blackman, who had a BookBench based on her novel Noughts and Crosses, said, 'The benches are truly remarkable - they are a reminder of the many ways books can inspire us. Reading liberates your potential, it liberates life.'