“Norma said, ‘Well, that’s a stupid name for a dog like that,’” Bridwell told NPR in 2012. Initially, Bridwell called his giant dog Tiny-but his wife, Norma, didn’t think that was right. Clifford is named after an imaginary friend. But Scholastic called just three weeks after he sent in the manuscript and ended up publishing Clifford the Big Red Dog in February 1963. After all, he’d never written anything before. “I never thought the book would see the light of day,” he told Boston magazine in 2012. One editor finally suggested that Bridwell create a story to go with his drawings of a little girl with pony-like dog (as a kid, Bridwell had wanted a dog he could ride).īridwell wrote the story in three days in 1962. Norman Bridwell was told over and over again that he was never going to make it as an illustrator his art just wasn’t good enough. Bridwell at the Clifford The Big Red Dog 50th Anniversary Celebration.
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