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The Iron Giant
by Ted Hughes
from Yearling

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Childhood classic.
  Bought the Iron Giant video, paperback, and the original version (The Iron Man) so my college age son could enjoy them again and keep them for his future family.

• A children's book
  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... more info

• Very Different from the Movie
  I first saw "The Iron Giant" as a movie and it's a fantastic movie. When I saw a copy of the book for sale I quickly snatched it up, I thought I would read it with my daughter.
  The thing that first surprised me about this book is that it is beautifully written. It's obvious from its prose that Ted Hughes is also a poet. The slightly sophisticated language might be too much for those under 7, but I found it refreshingly charming.
  The second surprise was that this book had very little to do with the... more info

• Wonderful Book & Movie
  Although this isn't the place to have a complete discussion of the Hughes/Plath relationship I suggest that the previous reviewer do more reading. Hughes did not "drive two wives to suicide" although it is popular to vilify him. Plath had previous suicide attempts well before ever meeting Hughes although this is generally ignored by those who wish to turn her into a feminist icon and blame him for her death. I could go on, but this is not the place for it.

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