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    A math teacher has painted 45 book rocks to hide in her local library (when it reopens).

    Emily Temple

    July 20, 2020, 10:00am

    Look, these days, I’ll take my cheering wherever I can get it. And this weekend, Ella Dickson put a smile on my face with her thread of book rocks, each one painstakingly painted to look like a novel. They are quite impressive, especially considering the uneven canvas. In 2018, Dickson, who is a math teacher at Beaumont School in St Albans, did a similar project with children’s books, but this summer, she’s used her isolation to whip up a crop of “some grown up books” to hide when libraries reopen. Because grown ups need wonder and discovery too! At least I do. Anyway, check out her work:

    And a few highlights:

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