Growing up in Kokomo, Indiana, Norman Bridwell was always drawing. I was not good at sports and my high school shop teacher, after a few days of class, took my tools away, telling me Heres a pad of paper instead. You seem to like to draw: stick to that, Bridwell remembers. But not everyone believed his drawings or writing would someday delight millions of children and parents and teachers around the world, a point he likes to stress when he visits schools, something which he does frequently. I always liked to draw, Bridwell tells children, but I was never considered very good. In school there was always someone better than me; the art teacher always liked their work better than mine. Teachers didnt like my writing either.

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