Book description
"The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff". With the first sentence of this story, Ted Hughes demands attention, and he holds it to the end. The style is vigorous, the language rich but not beyond the understanding of children, who will be gripped by the story. The tale concerns two monsters: the Iron Man, huge and terrifying, but made happy by being given a billet in a scrap metal yard where he can feast on all his favourite tit-bits. Then into the story comes a far more sinister monster, a space-bat-angel-dragon, who eats living things ….. the most original fable to have appeared for some time.
