Miffy was created in The Netherlands 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 on holiday in Holland.
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.
It is his use of primarily simplistic primary colors that makes Miffy instantly recognisable.
Miffy and friends, produced by BonTon Toys in a range of colours, in corduroy, terry and plush.
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