She pointed to a sample painting I'd done of a little girl with a gigantic red dog. She said if you want to illustrate a book, you'll probably have to write one of your own. Norma said, well, you always wanted to illustrate children's books, why don't you try that? I did about 10 paintings that I thought would appeal to children and took them to publishers and was rejected every place except that one publisher, a young woman, said well, you're not very good. I was a struggling, not very successful artist in New York. We spoke with Norman Bridwell in 2012, just as the Scholastic Press reissued the original "Clifford" stories under the title the "Clifford Collection." Norman Bridwell and his wife joined us from the studios of WCAI in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He wrote more than 90 "Clifford The Big Red Dog" stories which sold more than 126 million copies in 13 languages and became an animated series on PBS that's seen around the world. There might be a big - a very big - red dog roaming the neighborhood this weekend looking just a little sad.
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