"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."

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"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."

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"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."

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"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."

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"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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"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."

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