Dan Yaccarino
DAN YACCARINO is an author-illustrator who been named to the Texas Bluebonnet list for The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau , Kirkus' Best Children's Book List for All the Way To America , The New York Times 10 Best Illustrated List and the Bologna Ragazzi for Every Friday. His picture book I Am a Story is a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016. He's also the creator and producer of several animated series based on his books, Doug Unplugs ...See more
DAN YACCARINO is an author-illustrator who been named to the Texas Bluebonnet list for The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau , Kirkus' Best Children's Book List for All the Way To America , The New York Times 10 Best Illustrated List and the Bologna Ragazzi for Every Friday. His picture book I Am a Story is a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016. He's also the creator and producer of several animated series based on his books, Doug Unplugs (AppleTV), Oswald (Nickelodeon), Willa's Wild Life (NBC and Qubo), as well as the character designer behind The Backyardigans (Nickelodeon). He is also the illustrator of Holiday House's Firefighter Flo! and Crane Jane! See less
Dan Yaccarino's Featured Books
Dan Yaccarino book reviews
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Trashy Town
Great read-aloud book for younger kids
by Sparker, Feb 5, 2009
This is a great read-aloud book for younger kids, especially 2-5 year olds (though my 7 year old still gets a kick out it). The cadence of the text and its fun, repetitive phrases allow the kids to ... Read More
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Five Little Pumpkins
Book for children at Halloween
by RaymondH, Nov 29, 2007
Disappointed in contents as there really was no story to follow. Book can be read in less than 1 minute as not much to see or read. Read More
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Trashy Town
Great for Group Reading
by tks99, Nov 13, 2008
We first saw this book at my son's preschool, and the kids love it when the teacher reads it to everyone. My son loves garbage trucks and it's a good, rhythmic story about cleaning up trashy town. No ... Read More
