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The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights is a 1968 science fiction novel by Ted Hughes, future British Poet Laureate, first published by Faber and Faber in the UK with illustrations by George Adamson. [1]
Edward James Hughes OM OBE FRSL (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) [1] was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
The origins of the film lie in the book The Iron Man (1968), by poet Ted Hughes, who wrote the novel for his children to comfort them in the wake of their mother Sylvia Plath's suicide. In the 1980s, rock musician Pete Townshend chose to adapt the book for a concept album; it was released as The Iron Man: A Musical in 1989. [18]
His book illustrations include two novels by Ted Hughes: The Iron Man (1985 edition, orig. 1968) and its sequel The Iron Woman (1993). Another is a 2002 edition of Jack London's The Call of the Wild (orig. 1903). [1] Some time after that, Andrew illustrated for the book Tales of the Peculiar (orig. 2016) by Ransom Riggs.
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Lucy contacts Hogarth, the friend of the Iron Man, asking for his help. With the aid of the Iron Man's servant the Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon, the Iron Woman is temporarily granted the power to change all the men in the factory into the swamp creatures, so that they can feel what the animals of the marsh were enduring.