The Iron Giant

As a fan of the animated film, I had been waiting to read this.I’ll admit first that I’m a grown man with no kids. I enjoyed the book without the additional intent of sharing it with a young one in my life.The story is a delightful little adventure about the titular iron giant who is initially misunderstood and was victimized. However, once his purpose was found, he was roundly accepted.He then proved his worth even further by saving the planet by taking on some serious risks.There’s a whole pile of messages built into the parable and you can truly assign your own meaning. It’s a short read and yet packed a punch.And here’s the kicker. If I had a kid, I’d want to read this book for them!!

It’s one of my favorite books to read it’s very descriptive

I bought this book because I loved the movie.This was also a really cool book, but it's very different from the movie. There are actually only a few concepts taken from this book that made it into the movie--a) that the iron giant can fix himself, b) that the boy's name is Hogarth, and c) that the iron giant eats metal. Nothing else is the same, really.Brad Bird is a genius to make the movie he did out of this book.I didn't realize this, but the book was written in 1968. It's very much in children's book format, with small, chunk-sized stories, that would be very fun to read out loud.Overall I really enjoyed this book.

Beautifully written story.

A mysterious, fearsome giant, made of iron, walks out of nowhere to the top of a cliff. No one knows where he had come from or how he was made. When he steps off the cliff, he crashes and breaks into a hundred pieces, but over time all the pieces fit themselves back together again. Soon afterwards a farmer's son named Hogarth is fishing in a stream and at evening sees a giant black figure, bigger than a house. No one, except his own father, believes Hogarth at first, but when reports begin to come in about missing tractors, plows, and other farm machinery made of steel and iron, everyone decides that something needs to be done. A big hole is dug near where the Iron Giant had gone back into the sea and is covered with branches, straw, and soil, with an old truck on the nearby hill as bait to trap the monster. At first, he does not come, but eventually he does fall in and is covered with a mound of dirt. However, the following spring, he digs out of the trap and starts eating all the barbed wire for miles around, as well as hinges which he tears off gates, tin cans which he finds in ditches, tractors, cars, and trucks. The farmers talk about calling in the army. But Hogarth has a plan. What is it? And when a giant space lizard the size of Australia comes to Earth from Orion and threatens to destroy the planet by eating all living things, is there anything that Hogarth and the Iron Giant can do to save mankind? We saw the 1999 Warner Brothers animated feature film The Iron Giant, and our boys really liked it, but I didn't know until a few years ago that the movie was based on a book, originally published in England as The Iron Man, although the two are very different in many respects. The book is quite spare, consisting of only five chapters, so it is an easy read for middle grade students. There is one mention of the stars being billions and trillions and zillions of years old, but it is also said that the people wept and prayed to God to save them from the space lizard. No bad language occurs. Author Ted Hughes was poet laureate of England from 1984 until his death in 1998. The book is said to be "a powerful tribute to peace on earth--and in all the universe," so some might see in it a little anti-war propaganda, but the fact is that no reasonable person really wants war and that everyone hopes and strives for peace. There is a sequel, The Iron Woman, describing retribution based on environmental themes related to pollution.

This is a great book and a lot of fun to read. I remember reading it with my third grade class, and have shared it with all the kids in my life since. This version has images from the movie on the cover, but there's not a lot of overlap between the movie and story. This book is the original story with the illustrations I remember from my childhood within the pages.

I didn't think it was possible, but amazon of course had an iron giant book!!! My son was thrilled and the book is a great book. Good quality and color.

This is a good book, but what it is really good at, is inspiring me to leap beyond it; think about it, long after I put the book down. What I keep thinking about is how much better the book could have been.The story itself is serviceable but I'd never enthusiastically endorse it. The concept of a strange giant robot befriending a lonely child became a jump point for everyone from Pete Townshend (The Iron Man album) to Brad Bird (The Iron Giant).Ted Hughes's The Iron Giant is that rare case where others interpretations of his work are actually better than the original itself. Ted was alive to work with Townsend on the concept album, so he was involved in improving his own story. Where Pete and, to a greater extent, Brad Bird and screenwriter Tim McCanlies, found hope, Ted largely wrote despair. For me, the final pages don't ring true with the rest of the tale.Work was already well underway on Brad Bird's The Iron Giant, when Ted took his life in 1998.

Formo parte del regalo del día del Niño de mi Hijo de 27 años, jamás creo poder regalarle su Gigante de Acero a escala y su película, woooooow, fue maravilloso fue como volver a verlo siendo un Niño y pudiendo hacerlo feliz porque realmente se sorprendió. Mil Gracias, recordar es volver a vivir y su infancia estuvo llena de aprendizajes y moralejas de amor de sus películas y está es una de la más bellas y llenas de Luminosas enseñanzas de Amor fraternal. Gracias de Corazón ❤️.

In great condition

Libro tal cual se describe. Letras grandes y algún que otro dibujo.

Great story

poco da dire su questo libro per ragazzi di Ted Hughes, dal quale è stato tratto il magnifico film d'animazione di Brad Bird.la versione qui recensita in lingua originale è molto bella, piccola e con una bellissima copertina.il racconto è un classico ed è consigliato sia a chi vuole imparare l'inglese, dato la semplicità di scrittura e la brevità del racconto, sia a chi è appassionato del genere.