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I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
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.
Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.
I have been drawing all my life.
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.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.
My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
Each book first begins with a little idea.