Each book first begins with a little idea.
From Dick Bruna
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.
I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.
I have been drawing all my life.
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.
Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
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