The Iron Man - Ted Hughes Reviews

An Iron Giant, who has had to reconstruct itself, travels through the ocean to a small farming community and eats metal objects until a boy named Hogarth manages to trap him in a pit. After the iron giant escapes, Hogarth befriends him and takes him to a junkyard to eat happily until a giant space dragon, who eats living things but cannot be ...  Read the complete review

Is this piffle still required reading in our primary schools? If the answer is positive, then we must take the Lord's name in vain. Yes, even you, Jeffrey Archer, could probably create a better "original fable" than this tosh. The Iron Man is a book that theediscerning read a lot of when young, but finding it in a ...  Read the complete review

A week ago I settled down with the children on the sofa with a bag of pick and mix and high hopes. The credits rolled and we watched with eager anticipation for the first scenes of Ted Hughes ‘The Iron Man’. What followed could surely only be loosely termed as being based on the book, there were so many differences that it seemed a ...  Read the complete review

This is the first book I remember reading, I am sure I read some books before things like ‘Bill had a ball, Bill had a big ball, Bill had a big red ball, Bill had a friend called Jill, Bill and Jill……’ and so on and so forth. But this is the first book that I am happy to call a proper ...  Read the complete review