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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“It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time,” Milo laments. “There’s nothing for me to do, nowhere I’d care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing.” And so we are introduced to a young (and very bored) boy named Milo, a tollbooth, and an adventure in a strange place called Dictionopolis. The world knows and loves The Phantom Tollbooth and its creator, Norton Juster — a professional architect who also loved writing delightfully inventive books for children.
Notes from the Horn Book, a free monthly e-newsletter, is perfect for parents, teachers, and anyone else looking for good new books for children and young adults. Written by the editors of the distinguished Horn Book Magazine, it is full of news, reviews, and interviews with noteworthy authors and artists.
A new year opens many possibilities: fresh starts, unsullied dreams, and original notions. Meet real and make-believe characters in the books suggested here — the boy who invented television, a young female flyer, a sleepless hamster, and an observant owl, as well as others. Though each character you meet will be quite different, they share one thing in common: each has a novel idea or perhaps a novel problem and each is sure to start your new year off with energy and imagination!
