The Man Behind the Big Red Dog

Growing up in Kokomo, Indiana, Norman Bridwell, the author of the great children book Clifford the Big Red Dog, was always drawing dogs.  He said he wasn't a very good artist in his opinions but loved to express his passion for art and love for dogs.  He did not even imagine that his drawings would become a children's  best seller.  One day one of his high school teachers took away his school supplies because he wasn't paying attention and gave him a note pad and two pencils and said, "Here, you seem to like to draw, so stick to that."  He said, "He was never considered very good at drawing, someone was always better than me throughout junior high."  After high school, Bridwell wanted to take his drawing and turn it into career.  He studied first at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and then moved to New York, where he took classes at another art school, Cooper Union, for two years.  A few years later, Bridwell had published 15 children books.  Soon after his classic best sellers were turned into a show and some movies.http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-bridwell-norman.asp
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