The Iron Man
Dec 2011 · Faber & Faber
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A beautiful new edition of The Iron Man, the bestselling classic by Ted Hughes.
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff.
Where had he come from? Nobody knows.
How was he made? Nobody knows.
Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction by the Iron Man and set a trap for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.
'Gripping . . a classic.' Phillip Pullman
'A visionary tale.' Michael Morpurgo
'One of the greatest of modern fairy tales.' Observer
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff.
Where had he come from? Nobody knows.
How was he made? Nobody knows.
Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction by the Iron Man and set a trap for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.
'Gripping . . a classic.' Phillip Pullman
'A visionary tale.' Michael Morpurgo
'One of the greatest of modern fairy tales.' Observer
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4.4
107 reviews
Nipul Vyas
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1 November 2014
I have it in school we're reading it now but we have to read the same pages all the time we made robots out of different thing like buttons tin foil and boxed and other things we even watched the video this other person used his imagnation
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Matt “Reiver” C
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11 December 2014
I had forgotten about this little gem for 30 years and, spotting the film, The Iron Giant, the memories came flooding back. My dad read this to me a ridiculous number of times (and he never said no bless him :)). If you read anything to the kids in your family you can't go far wrong with this.
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Sarah Cooksley
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22 July 2017
The movie is very different to the original story, but I love the way the author describes the iron man's world. Very lyrical.
About the author
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998). He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.
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