Dick Bruna — Artist born on August 23, 1927,

Dick Bruna is a Dutch author, artist, illustrator and graphic designer... (wikipedia)

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
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 have been drawing all my life.
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.
Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.