Dan Yaccarino, author portrait
© Helen Hollyman

Dan Yaccarino

DAN YACCARINO is an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator with more than thirty books to his credit, including Five Little Pumpkins, Doug Unplugged, and an edition of Mother Goose rhymes for Little Golden Books. Yaccarino is also the creator of the animated TV series Oswald and Willa’s Wild Life, and he designed the characters for The Backyardigans.
Doug Unplugged
Billy and Goat at the State Fair
All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel
Doug Unplugs on the Farm
Count on the Subway
Who Will Sing a Lullaby?
Little Boy with a Big Horn
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
Boy and Bot
Lawn to Lawn

Books

Doug Unplugged
Billy and Goat at the State Fair
All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel
Doug Unplugs on the Farm
Count on the Subway
Who Will Sing a Lullaby?
Little Boy with a Big Horn
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
Boy and Bot
Lawn to Lawn

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