The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff...
So begins one of the greatest modern fairy tales, Ted Hughes' extraordinary fable about a huge metal man who comes from nowhere and terrifies the people of Earth.
Only one little boy called Hogarth tries to understand the great monster; the rest of humanity do their best ot destroy him. Then one day an even greater and more frightening creature arrives - the fierce and terrible space-bat-angel-dragon, who can only be stopped by the Iron Man.
