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the official
Dick Bruna website
Miffy is a picture book character in the form
of a small female rabbit drawn by Dick Bruna. Her original Dutch name is
Nijntje
which stems from a toddler's pronunciation of the word "konijntje" meaning
"little rabbit".
Miffy was created in 1955, after Dick Bruna had been telling his one-year-old
son Sierk stories about a little rabbit they had seen earlier in the dunes,
while on holiday at Egmond aan Zee. Miffy became a girl after Bruna decided that
he wanted to draw a dress and not trousers on his rabbit. Depending on the
story, Miffy can be a baby or 4 years old.
At first Miffy looked like a toy animal, with floppy ears, but by 1963 she
looked like the way we see Miffy today. Miffy is drawn in a very minimalist
style, requiring only a few lines and one or two primary colors.
There are some
colors that are never used, and Bruna can be picky about a certain shade of
color, brown and grey for example, and will search for it until he is happy.
Even though the things that he draws are not realistic, they are instantly
recognizable, and Miffy is obviously a rabbit.
There are now almost 30 titles for Miffy, and many more for the other
characters.
Dick Bruna has produced almost 100 books.
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The Miffy books each contain sixteen pages of story. Each page has one
illustration and four lines of verse, the last word of the second line rhymes
with the last of the fourth. They are written about things that children can
understand, and situations they will face such as going to the hospital and
going to school, and they always have a happy ending. Some books have no text at
all, such as Miffy's Dream
The books are printed in small format. Dick Bruna considers it important that
his audience feels that his books are there for them, not for their parents.
Most Miffy books have an advisory reading level of age 4 to 8 years.
Dick Bruna's books have now been translated into 40 different languages, and
over 80 million copies have been sold all over the world. He has won many awards
for his books, such as the Golden Brush in 1990 for Boris Bear and the Silver
Brush for Miffy In The Tent in 1996. In 1997 he was awarded the Silver Slate for
Dear Grandma Bunny, a book where Miffy's Grandmother dies.
The other characters that appear in the books are her family: Miffy's parents,
her Grandma and Grandpa, Aunt Alice, and her Uncle Bob, who appears in Miffy
Goes Flying. A new brother or sister for Miffy is introduced in Miffy And The
New Baby. She also has many friends, Boris and Barbara Bear, who first appeared
in 1989 and are boyfriend and girlfriend, Poppy Pig, who appeared in 1977, and
her niece Grunty, Snuffy, who appeared in 1969, and other bunnies such as
Aggie
and Melanie.
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