No. of pages 160
Published: 2018
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This book features in the following series: Faber Children's Classics, Faber Classics, The Iron Man .
This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.
There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published in 2018 by Faber & Faber .
Ted Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in 1994. His many volumes of poetry for adults include HAWK IN THE RAIN, ELMET, and MOORTOWN DIARY, and he has written widely for children, including three collections of stories, the first of which, HOW THE WHALE BECAME & OTHER STORIES, is published simultaneously in Penguin Audiobooks. Michael Morpurgo is the award-winning author of over fifty books for children. He won the Whitbread Children's Novel Award for The Wreck of the Zanzibar, and the Smarties Book Prize for The Butterfly Lion. Several of his novels have been adapted for film and television. Michael lives in Devon where he and his wife, Clare, run the charity Farms for City Children. He is currently the Children's Laureate. Andrew Davidson is an acclaimed illustrator. The engravings he did for Ted Hughes' book The Iron Man won him the 1986 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award. He lives in Gloucestershire.
This book contains the following story:
The Iron Woman
Mankind has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge. Lucy understands the Iron Woman's rage and she too wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants to save her town from total destruction. She needs help. Who better to call on but Hogarth and the Iron Man...
This book is in the following series:
The Iron Man
Ted Hughes followed up his fable The Iron Man with a further fable to warn of the environmental destruction of our planet.
This book features the following character:
Hogarth
This book features the character Hogarth.
