Download The Iron Man: [A Children's Story In Five Nights] (The Iron Man #1) Free Audio Books

The Iron Man: [A Children's Story In Five Nights] (The Iron Man #1)

Ted Hughes

Paperback | Pages: 62 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 8532 Users | 671 Reviews

Specify Appertaining To Books The Iron Man: [A Children's Story In Five Nights] (The Iron Man #1)

Title	:	The Iron Man: [A Children's Story In Five Nights] (The Iron Man #1)
Author	:	Ted Hughes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 62 pages
Published	:	October 14th 1985 by Faber Children's Books (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Childrens. Fiction. Science Fiction. Fantasy

Interpretation Conducive To Books The Iron Man: [A Children's Story In Five Nights] (The Iron Man #1)

"Reckoned one of the greatest of modern fairy tales" - Observer.
Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction caused by the Iron Man. A trap is set 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.
"Starts superbly with a clanking iron giant toppling from a cliff and lying smashed on the rocks below. Then his various parts get up and search for each other. Hughes has never written more compellingly" - The Times.

Identify Books To The Iron Man: [A Children's Story In Five Nights] (The Iron Man #1)

Original Title:	The Iron Man
ISBN:	057113677X (ISBN13: 9780571136773)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Iron Man #1
Literary Awards:	Kurt Maschler Award (1985)

Rating Appertaining To Books The Iron Man: [A Children's Story In Five Nights] (The Iron Man #1)

Ratings: 3.92 From 8532 Users | 671 Reviews

Write Up Appertaining To Books The Iron Man: [A Children's Story In Five Nights] (The Iron Man #1)

The Iron Giant is one of our favorite movies, and I remembered from the special features about it that it was inspired by a book by Ted Hughes. For some reason I hadn't ever sought that book out, but in the library the other day we happened to notice this copy of it on the shelf, and I grabbed it immediately.It's clear where Brad Bird got some of the basic ideas for the film version, but the book and film are different enough that they can be regarded as independent entities. As I read the book,



I was thrilled when I got this copy of The Iron Man from my husband. I've always loved the movie The Iron Giant, and have it almost memorized in its entirety! I never knew that it was based on a book, nor that it was a book written by Ted Hughes! I shamefully admit that this was my first Ted Hughes book, and although I enjoyed it, it was close to nothing like the movie. That put me off for many reasons, but the biggest being that I was reading it with the movie playing in my head, which was

4.5 Stars

First let me say that I will not accept this as SF. It's a great story, a parable, a fable, a fantasy... but SF would keep track of relative sizes at the very least! And what about all that consumption; where is the matter going?Second, I coulda sworn that I read it before. I know I enjoyed the movie. And of course the movie is very different (though also quite good). But I thought I read the story, and yet almost nothing rings a bell. In any case, this oversized, artistically designed edition

i read this in class two years ago as a class and i loved don't forget to watch the movie after

The Iron Man by Ted Hughes is a book that I came across due to the year four class I was placed in using the book for the basis of their Autumn terms literacy lessons. The Iron Man is a third person account of a metal eating iron giant who falls from space to impact on Hogarth's and the rest of the village's lives. The book was used successfully as the basis for a combination of literacy lessons due to the authors use of many literary devices which the class were required to learn that term. It