{"id":575,"date":"2025-07-30T11:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=575"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:15:31","slug":"war-of-the-worlds-graphic-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2025\/07\/30\/war-of-the-worlds-graphic-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"War of the Worlds: graphic novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/919PRumWvGL._SY466_.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"466\" \/>A stunning full-colour illustrated adaptation of H. G. Wells&#8217; sci-fi classic, from the illustrator of\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">A Boy Called Christmas\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The Iron Man<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1894. Across space, this earth is being watched by envious eyes.<\/p>\n<p>What seems to be a meteorite falls to earth, but from the debris unfolds a terrifying alien threat . . .<\/p>\n<p>Leon and and his scientist wife race against the clock to end the war of all worlds.<\/p>\n<p>This is a modernised graphic novel retelling of one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, now suitable for a younger 11+ readership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stunning full-colour illustrated adaptation of H. G. Wells&#8217; sci-fi classic, from the illustrator of\u00a0A Boy Called Christmas\u00a0and\u00a0The Iron Man. 1894. Across space, this earth is being watched by envious eyes. What seems to be a meteorite falls to earth, but from the debris unfolds a terrifying alien threat . . . Leon and and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2025\/07\/30\/war-of-the-worlds-graphic-novel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;War of the Worlds: graphic novel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}