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The Iron Man

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The Iron Man by Ted Hughes

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By Ted Hughes

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221 reviews

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.

Reviews

09 Aug 2025

I like the part when the iron man won and the space angel bat sang a lullaby.

07 Aug 2025

I would reccomend because I think that if anyone likes to be a bit cheeky, they will like the iron man because that is what his character is like. I also really liked the names of the characters because they were unique names.

28 Jul 2025

the little boy was amazing

15 Jul 2025

Iron man got trapped

08 Jul 2025

I really enjoyed reading the Iron Man. I particularly liked the part where the Iron Man had to get to a different country and fight a giant beast in a battle.

04 Jul 2025

Brill. Class book

29 Dec 2024

Good book to read

13 Oct 2024

I enjoyed this so much and I love the way in which a once feared Iron Man and an annoyance to the public became their saving grace against the space bat angel. I love how the book changes perceptions of the key characters throughout especially the space bat angel. By the end of the boy you start to feel sorry for the creature.

14 Sep 2024

I liked the illustrations- they were nice in their simplicity. I really liked the story and it felt like something that I'd write.

13 Sep 2024

I would recommend this book.
The main character. Iron man. I

04 Sep 2024

I really liked this book. We read it at school but I wanted to read it again. My favourite character is the space bat angel dragon because he is gigantic. It said in the book that his eyes are as big as Switzerland. I would definitely recommend that other people read it.

04 Sep 2024

I really liked this book. We read it at school but I wanted to read it again. My favourite character is the space bat angel dragon because he is gigantic. It said in the book that his eyes are as big as Switzerland. I would definitely recommend that other people read it.

23 Aug 2024

I liked this book because he saved the world but nobody liked him until he did.
I would recommend this book to my friend's

11 Aug 2024

This book was unique because it had a lot of characters that were all imaginary.

30 Jul 2024

Starts superbly with a clanking iron giant toppling from a cliff a d lying smashed on the rocks below. Then his various parts get up and search for each other. Hughes has never writen more complyingly.

29 Jul 2024

My favourite part was chapter 5 called the iron man’s challenge

20 Jul 2024

Love it!

12 Jul 2024

I absolutely love it so much I like the part when a family have a picnic and they run away because the Iron man was escaping

12 Jul 2024

I absolutely love it so much I like the part when a family have a picnic and they run away because the Iron man was escaping

12 Jul 2024

I absolutely love it so much I like the part when a family have a picnic and they run away because the Iron man was escaping

21 May 2024

I liked this story because the bat angel is as big as australia and all the other countries and sea’s it crosses

20 May 2024

Interesting book

20 Feb 2024

it was brilliant

31 Dec 2023

Fiction. Really enjoyable inspirational story that my dad had also read when he was a child

05 Sep 2023

I liked learning the definitions of all the new descriptive words used in this book. It has helped my vocabulary.

04 Sep 2023

Great book, some lovely vocab.

04 Sep 2023

I liked this book as it kept me really interested to find out what would happen.

29 Aug 2023

i thou ght this bok was good but there wasnt much going on and it was a very small book.

28 Aug 2023

It was quite short but I loved the battle with the space bat angel dragon!

27 Aug 2023

I enjoyed reading about an iron man changing his ways to help the people on the earth. I liked Hogarth's character, he seemed to be a very sensible and kind boy.

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