![]() ![]() Scholastic, which became a top children's publisher thanks in part to Clifford, installed bright red cushions on the chairs in the corporate headquarters' auditorium in New York. Spinoffs include cartoons with John Ritter as the voice of Clifford and future "Hunger Games" novelist Suzanne Collins among the script writers. Clifford became standard nighttime reading for countless families and a money machine for publisher Scholastic Inc. "A lot of people were Clifford fans and that makes them Norman fans, too," said his wife of 56 years. Images of Clifford have appeared everywhere from museums to the White House. Starting in 1963 with "Clifford, the Big Red Dog," Bridwell wrote and illustrated more than 40 Clifford books, from "Clifford and the Grouchy Neighbors" to "Clifford Goes to Hollywood." More than 120 million copies have sold worldwide, along with cartoons, a feature film, a musical, stuffed animals, key chains, posters and stickers. ![]()
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