blijf ’s lekker thuis met ’n zwart beertje (Stay Cosy at Home with a Little Black Bear), Dick Bruna, 1963

blijf ’s lekker thuis met ’n zwart beertje (Stay Cosy at Home with a Little Black Bear), Dick Bruna, 1963

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Posters for the Zwarte Beertjes (Little Black Bears) paperback series hung in railway stations. Bruna: ‘I become nostalgic when I am in a railway station. I often went there to look at new posters. You would run into all of your colleagues and we would point: “look, that’s the one by that person”. In the 1960s, 1970s the station was just one big exhibition