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" Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented. "
Beach
Story
Sleep
" But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children. "
Think
Meant
Down
" But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me. "
Nothing
Me
Side
" Each book first begins with a little idea. "
Idea
Little
Begins
" I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist. "
People
Artist
Become
" 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. "
Books
Always
Matter
" I have been drawing all my life. "
Been
Life
My Life
" I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it. "
Thought
Get
Amazing
" I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh. "
Become
Nice
Would
" I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format. "
Book
Picture
Pictures
" Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time. "
Changed
Never
Lot
" My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm! "
Father
Me
Been
" 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. "
Me
Drawing
Time
" Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl. "
Beginning
Right
Know
" 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. "
Book
Children
Day
" When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents! "
Parents
Parent
Book
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