With its infectious opening theme song, Believe In Yourself, written by Judy Henderson and Jerry DeVilliers Jr. Arthur's Nose was followed by Arthur's Eyes, Arthur's Valentine and 18 more books before the tales launched a TV show - 20 years later. Marc Brown thought he had a good story on his hands. So much of a problem that Arthur considers getting a nose job: So this story became about his nose being a problem."
Then his son asked him to draw him a picture, "and the thing that stood out for me about aardvarks was their nose. Thinking alliteratively, Arthur the aardvark was born. "I don't know why, I must have been thinking alphabetically because aardvarks popped into my head and then he wanted to know his name," Brown says. One night soon after, his son asked him for a bedtime story. The small Boston college where he was teaching announced it was closing. "Arthur had a problem with his nose and I had a problem in my life," he recalls. "I think sometimes that I was rescued by Arthur," Brown says. On the cover of the very first book, Arthur's Nose, he's got a long snout and he doesn't look happy about it. In fact, Brown's original drawings of Arthur are more anatomically correct.
With his big round glasses, little ears and two dashes for a nose, Arthur looks more like a bespectacled mouse than an aardvark. To mark the end of an era, Brown looks back on Arthur's legacy in the new book, Believe In Yourself: What We Learned from Arthur.
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The books by Marc Brown that inspired the series have sold nearly 70 million copies since the first edition was published in 1976. Shown in 80 countries, Arthur has won seven Emmy Awards and a Peabody. Produced by WGBH, the aardvark (yes, he's an aardvark) will live on in reruns, digital shorts and a podcast - but no new episodes are planned. The PBS Kids' TV show Arthur begins its 25th and final season this week.
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