Teachers find the lessons

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I get a lot of mail from teachers, saying that they find Clifford very useful in teaching things to children. This is all unintentional on my part. I’m not a teacher. I’m an entertainer. I write books that are fun, I hope, for children to read. But teachers see ways to teach values, to teach manners, to teach things to children. I admire them for finding this in the books but, believe me, it’s not my doing. It’s what the teachers see

If there’s one message that winds up in most of the books, it’s to try. And if things go wrong, don’t give up. Go back and try again. Clifford does that all the time. He’s constantly making mistakes, or knocking things over, but it doesn’t keep him from trying.

Many teachers use Clifford books to teach lessons to students. That is fine with Norman Bridwell -- even though the lessons were unintentional.

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Norman Bridwell could never have guessed at the world-wide phenomenon that Clifford the Big Red Dog would become. In this exclusive video interview with Reading Rockets, Norman Bridwell talks about writing and illustrating Clifford and the big dog’s success in books and on television.

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