Dominic Cappello

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Dominic Cappello is a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based writer and illustrator. He is the creator of the Ten Talks book series published by Hyperion, NYC in 2000 and 2001. Cappello was the author of Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children About Violence ISBN 0-7868-8549-1 and co-author of Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children About Sex And Character (with Pepper Schwartz, PhD) ISBN 0-7868-8548-3, and Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children About Drugs and Choices (with Xenia Becher, MSW) ISBN 0-7868-8664-1 . Ten Talks received national attention when Oprah created a show around the book on sex and character in Oct. of 2000 featuring parents who had used the books approaches to family communication. Cappello is also the author (with Susan Duron, PhD) of the parent-focused HIV prevention program "Can We Talk?" developed by the National Education Association-Health Information Network through a cooperative agreement with the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health in 1999.