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Each book first begins with a little idea.

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Dick Bruna
Age: 89 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 23
Died: 2017
Died: February 16
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Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Writer
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H.M. Bruna
Hendrikus Magdalenus Bruna
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I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
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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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