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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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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

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.

21 Aug 2023

It was funny when the Iron Man fell off a cliff and broke all his parts and he had to put his head back on again!

16 Aug 2023

I love the detail in the book
And all the smilies.

14 Aug 2023

I liked it when he fell down the cliff because his hand started moving and then walked away and picked up and eye.

05 Aug 2023

I liked this book because it had a funny ending. The best thing about this book was that the iron man fell down a cliff at the start and it was quite funny.

01 Aug 2023

I didn't get into this story, I wouldn't recommend it. My opinion: my favourite part of the story was the start because it was interesting, the rest of the book was more action and I didn't understand it and it was a bit boyish.

01 Aug 2023

Great book.

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