Great Big Story visited with author, filmmaker and songwriter Lenny Lipton to find out what inspired him to write his famous song “Puff the Magic Dragon” when he was a 19-year old student at Cornell University.
I was reading a poem by Ogden Nash called Custard the Dragon , as I was walking down the hill to the apartment, I was thinking about the poem I had read and I thought that I’d try to write one too about a dragon. I saw a typewriter on the kitchen table and typed…