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Bruce Degen (born June 14, 1945) is an American illustrator and writer with over forty children's books to his credit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bruce Degen, Biography )〕 He may be known best for illustrating the ''The Magic School Bus'' series written by Joanna Cole. He has collaborated with writers Nancy White Carlstrom, on the Jesse Bear books, and Jane Yolen, on the Commander Toad series. Degen has authored ''Jamberry'', ''Daddy Is a Doodlebug'', and ''Shirley's Wonderful Baby''. He was encouraged by an elementary school teacher to become an illustrator, and pursue his primary love for art found in children’s books. Humor is one of his key values, as expressed by a quote comparing children's illustration to traditional fine arts: "You don't see many people walking around a gallery are chuckling. And I realized that I wanted a chuckle."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reading Rockets: Transcript from an interview with Bruce Degen )〕 His career has included such diverse activities as advertising design, teaching art to students, teaching children's book illustration to adults, painting scenery for opera productions, and running a lithography studio in Israel. Mr. Degen currently lives in Connecticut. ==Childhood== He was born in 1945 and raised in Brooklyn. His youth was marked by the contrast between urban New York City with the summertimes he spent in rural upstate New York, where he would pick wild berries. He credits these experiences as the inspiration for his book, ''Jamberry''. "It was green. It was soft. You could walk around in bare feet, and we used to go out and pick lots of berries that grew wild. I always thought of the world as being particularly generous and joyful. And when I was searching my memories, trying to write a book for very young children about being joyful, that popped right up."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruce Degen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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