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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.

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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