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Dan Yaccarino, author portrait
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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
All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
Boy and Bot

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Doug Unplugged
All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
Boy and Bot

Log On, Log Off: Finding Balance on the Internet

Doomscrolling, avalanches of app notifications, the almighty algorithm: sometimes it feels impossible to just put your phone down, even when you want to. Every part of the digital landscape is a battle for our attention, but we only have so much to give. The result? Utter exhaustion. And yet, it’s not like we can quit

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