![]() Bruna considers it important that his audience feels that his books are there for them, not for their parents. Some books have no text at all, such as Miffy's Dream. 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. Each page has one illustration and four lines of verse, the last word of the second line rhymes with the last of the fourth. The Miffy books each contain twelve pages of story. Bruna has produced a total of 124 picture books for children. It is his use of primarily primary colors that makes Miffy instantly recognisable, and also popular with preschoolers, because of her bright and intense simplistic colours.Īlmost 32 Miffy titles have been published and many more for the other characters. Bruna chose to only use black, white, the primary colours (red, yellow, and blue), green, orange, brown, and grey. Miffy is drawn in a graphic style, with minimalist black graphic lines. Depending on the story, Miffy can range in age from being a baby to being four years old.Īt first Miffy looked like a toy animal with floppy ears, but by 1963, her design was changed to her current incarnation, a stylized form of a rabbit. Miffy became a female after Bruna decided that he wanted to draw a dress and not trousers on his rabbit. Miffy was created in 1955 after 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. On 30 January 2013, a feature-length film, Miffy the Movie, was released in theaters and stars Eva Poppink in the title role.įour television series based on the character have been produced: Dick Bruna's Miffy Storybook Classics from 1984 Miffy: Colors, Numbers, and Shapes from 1996 Miffy and Friends from 2003 and Miffy's Adventures Big and Small from 2015. In addition, two separate television series as well as items such as clothes and toys featuring the character followed. In total they have sold over 100 million copies. The first Miffy book was produced in 1955 and almost thirty others have followed. The original Dutch name, "nijntje", is a shortening of the diminutive konijntje, "little rabbit". Miffy ( Dutch: nijntje, pronounced ) is a fictional rabbit appearing in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artist Dick Bruna.
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