

I recommend watching the 1999 animated movie The Iron Giant after reading the book, for better enjoyment. The book is entangled in bravery, friendships and adventure, and I am certain that it will be a child's dear friend forever, should they read it once. I believe that it is able to spark a child's imagination and curiosity. The writing is very smooth and easy to digest.

These may have been a bit too grim for me though. Illustrations are always something I truly admire. The book was beautifully written and it had many illustrations that supported the story. But when a bigger danger comes around, the might need the help of the Iron Man after all. The Iron Man starts eating all the metal in the town, and the concerned town members capture him. This is a Children's book about a little boy an an iron man. I am very glad I picked it up, because it was such a pleasant short read. I chose to read The Iron Man by Ted Hughes as part of my Potions prompt for my OWLs Readathon in April. Wishlist | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest After decades of silence on the subject of his marriage to Plath, Hughes addressed it in the poems of Birthday Letters (1998). Winter Pollen (1994) published some of essays of Hughes on subjects of literary and cultural criticism.

From 1965, he co-edited the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation in London. He wrote many volumes for children, including Remains of Elmet(1979), in which he recalled the world of his childhood.

The couple earlier separated, and following suicide of Plath in 1963, Hughes stopped writing poetry almost completely for almost three years but thereafter published prolifically, often in collaboration with photographers and illustrators, as in Under the North Star (1981). The couple made a visit to the United States in 1957, the year of publication of The Hawk in the Rain, his first volume of verse. In 1956, he married the American poet Sylvia Plath. At Pembroke College, Cambridge, he found folklore and anthropology of particular interest, a concern a number of his poems reflected. The dialect of native west riding area of Yorkshire set the tone of verse of Hughes. Most characteristic verse of this English writer for children without sentimentality emphasizes the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines. He, the brother of Gerald Hughes and husband of Sylvia Plath, fathered Frieda Hughes and. British poet Ted Hughes with full name Edward James Hughes served as poet laureate from 1984 to 1998 people note his work for its symbolism, passion, and dark natural imagery.
