The show aired in the Netherlands on KRO, in the United Kingdom on ITV, in Canada on TVOntario in Australia on ABC, and in the USA on Cartoon Network's Small World block with VHS releases from Geneon USA, episodes of the show were later included as Bonus Features on Miffy and Friends DVDs.įrom 2003 to 2007, Miffy and Friends aired on children's television channels such as Treehouse in Canada, and Noggin in the USA. Directed by veteran animator Gene Deitch, each episode was traditionally animated and ran for approximately five minutes. Miffy appeared in her first TV show in 1984, called Dick Bruna's Miffy Storybook Classics: The Original Series. Miffy statue at the Nijntjepleintje ('little nijntje square') in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This unauthorised use of the character spread and Miffy became a mascot for groups involved in radical ecological direct action. In the early 1990s, an image of Miffy holding an adjustable spanner coyly behind her back appeared on flyers produced by people taking direct action against the UK government's road building program. 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. A new brother or sister for Miffy is introduced in Miffy And The New Baby. ![]() The other characters that appear in the books are her family: Miffy's parents, her Grandma and Grandpa, her Auntie Alice, and 'Uncle Bob,' a family friend, who appears in Miffy Goes Flying. In 1997, he was awarded the Silver Slate for Dear Grandma Bunny, a book where Miffy's grandmother was sick and died. Dick Bruna 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. It is also translated in dialects, including in Zeelandic by Engel Reinhoudt. Most Miffy books have an advisory reading level of age four to eight years.īruna's books have been translated into more than 50 different languages, and over 85 million copies have been sold all over the world. 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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