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

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

Each book first begins with a little idea.
Dick Bruna

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

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.
Dick Bruna

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

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

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