Question: Darren T. Holmes animated "The Iron Giant" based on a 1968 of what novel?

Context articles: Mike Nguyen
Darren T. Holmes
Invincible Ed
1999 in film
Chris Sauve
The Iron Giant
M. Emmet Walsh
Randy Myers (animator)
Jeffrey Lynch
Charles Howerton

Mike Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American artist who worked as a Supervising Animator on Warner Bros.' "The Iron Giant" but is best known for creating his own animated feature "My Little World".
Darren T. Holmes is a film editor whose credits include animated films such as "The Iron Giant" (1999), "Lilo & Stitch" (2002), "Ratatouille" (2007), "How to Train Your Dragon" (2010), and "The Croods" (2013).
 He also served as a consulting editor for "Song of the Sea" (2014).
Invincible Ed is the debut graphic novel written and illustrated by Ryan Woodward who has worked on such film projects as "Space Jam", "The Iron Giant", "Osmosis Jones", and "Spider-Man 2".
 "Invincible Ed" was originally released by Summertime Books, Woodward's own publishing company.
 The entire four issue miniseries was released later by Dark Horse Comics in 2004.
The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's final film "Eyes Wide Shut", Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film "All About My Mother", the science-fiction hit "The Matrix", the Deep Canvas-pioneering Disney animated feature "Tarzan" and Best Picture-winner "American Beauty" and the well-received "The Green Mile", as well as the animated works "The Iron Giant", "Toy Story 2", "Stuart Little" and "".
 Other noteworthy releases included Spike Jonze's and Charlie Kaufman's breakout film "Being John Malkovich" and M. Night Shyamalan's breakout film "The Sixth Sense", the controversial "Fight Club" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia".
 The year also featured George Lucas' top-grossing "".
Chris Sauve is a Canadian animator.
 He has done some directing, but works primarily as an animator.
 He has worked on several television shows ("The Raccoons, The Ren and Stimpy Show", "Futurama", "Baby Blues") and films ("Iron Giant", "Home on the Range").
The Iron Giant is a 1999 American animated science-fiction comedy-drama action film using both traditional animation and computer animation, produced by and directed by Brad Bird in his directorial debut.
 It is based on the 1968 novel "The Iron Man" by Ted Hughes (which was published in the United States as "The Iron Giant") and was scripted by Tim McCanlies from a story treatment by Bird.
 The film stars the voices of Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald, Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., John Mahoney, and Vin Diesel.
 Set during the Cold War in 1957, the film is about a young boy named Hogarth Hughes, who discovers a giant metallic robot who fell from space.
 With the help of beatnik artist Dean McCoppin, they attempt to prevent the U.S. military and Kent Mansley, a paranoid federal agent, from finding and destroying the Giant.
Michael "M." Emmet Walsh (born March 22, 1935) is an American character actor and comedian who has appeared in over 200 films and television series.
 He is arguably most known for his work in the Coen Brothers' first film, "Blood Simple" (1984).
 Walsh has also appeared in a number of other films including Carl Reiner's comedy "The Jerk" (1979), Ridley Scott's science fiction film "Blade Runner" (1982), and Brad Bird's animated film "The Iron Giant" (1999).
Randy Myers (born March 29, 1967) is an American Animator and animation director.
 He is best known for his animation direction work on "Samurai Jack" and "The Powerpuff Girls".
 His other works include "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy", "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends", "Dexter's Laboratory", "Cats Don't Dance", "The Iron Giant", "My Life as a Teenage Robot", "The Fairly OddParents", "Gravity Falls", "", among others.
 He is supervising producer on "We Bare Bears".
Jeffrey Lynch is an American animator and graphic artist.
 He has worked as an animation director on "The Simpsons" and "Futurama", and as an assistant director on "Spider-Man", "Spider-Man 2", "Spider-Man 3" and "The Iron Giant".
Charles Howerton is an American actor best known for such films and television series as "The Black Gestapo", "Eat My Dust", "Up from the Depths", "Smokey Bites the Dust", "Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype", "", "Wolfen", "Assassination" and "The Iron Giant".