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 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.
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.
Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.
I work very long on each book, sometimes two or three months, because I think all the twelve illustrations have to be nice pieces of graphic art.
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.
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
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