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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!

Dick Bruna

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Dick Bruna
Age: 89 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 23
Died: 2017
Died: February 16
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H.M. Bruna
Hendrikus Magdalenus Bruna
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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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I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.
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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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I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
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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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I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
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Each book first begins with a little idea.
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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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