The Iron Man: [A Children's Story In Five Nights]
62 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1968
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ISBN: 9780571136773
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Faber Children's Books
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"Reckoned one of the greatest of modern fairy tales" - Observer.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."Starts superbly with a clanking iron giant toppling from a cliff and lying smashed on the rocks below. Then his various parts get up and search for each other. Hughes has never written more compellingly" - The Times.