Dick Bruna Quotes

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent – no jokes in it for the parents!

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.

Right at the beginning, I didn’t know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

Now, I had been drawing all this time – especially in France of course – so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.