"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."

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"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."

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

Beginning

"Each book first begins with a little idea."

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"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."

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"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."

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