Editing Miffy (section)

==Creation and design==
[[File:MIffy Art Parade (31953278522) (cropped).jpg|thumb|A sculpture of Miffy in Amsterdam]]
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,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/feb/15/booksforchildrenandteenagers.lisaallardice |title=Bunny love |date=15 February 2006 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |first=Lisa |last=Allardice |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709062546/http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/feb/15/booksforchildrenandteenagers.lisaallardice |archive-date=July 9, 2013 }}</ref> while on holiday at [[Egmond aan Zee]]. Miffy became a female after Bruna decided that he wanted to draw a dress and not trousers on his rabbit. 

At 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 is drawn in a graphic style, with minimalist black graphic lines.  Bruna chose to only use black, white, the primary colours (red, yellow, and blue), green, orange, brown, and grey. 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.