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

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

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

Family

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

Parenting

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

Work

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

Want

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

Childhood

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

Time

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

Nothing

"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."

Creativity

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

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"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."

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