{"id":451807,"date":"2026-03-01T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451807\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:25:07","slug":"world-book-day-from-aslan-to-paddington-the-sculptures-shaping-childrens-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451807\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day: From Aslan to Paddington &#8211; the sculptures shaping children&#8217;s stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CS Lewis Square, located in east Belfast, is a public space that commemorates Belfast-born author, CS Lewis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is home to seven sculptures inspired by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe &#8211; the first of the seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Much of the novel is set in Narnia, as the Pevensie children discover the land of talking animals and mythical creatures, ruled by the evil White Witch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitors to CS Lewis Square can see Mr Tumnus, Maugrim, the White Witch, Mr and Mrs Beaver, the Stone Table, the robin and overlooking them all, Aslan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The space is open to the public 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CS Lewis Square, located in east Belfast, is a public space that commemorates Belfast-born author, CS Lewis. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}