F. Isabel Campoy

F. Isabel Campoy is the author of numerous children’s books in the areas of poetry, theatre, biographies, and art. Her latest picture book Maybe Something Beautiful (co-written with Theresa Howell, illustrated by Rafael López, HMH) is inspired by the Urban Art Trail project in San Diego, that has sparked many art community projects throughout the United States. The book has been named an ALA Notable Book and an Action Book Club Pick by Little Free Libraries. Isabel Campoy is also a prolific translator of authors such as Mo Willems, Alice Schertle, Ellen Walsh, Monica Brown and Audrey Wood, and she wrote the original Spanish edition of Maybe Something Beautiful, titled Quizás also hermoso, just released from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Read more about the Spanish edition in Isabel’s interview on LatinxinKidlit.

Ms. Campoy is a linguist specializing in the area of language acquisition. She obtained her degree in English Philology at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, graduate degrees at the University of Reading, England and UCLA. She is the author of more than one hundred titles in Spanish and English, in the areas of Spanish Literacy, Second Language Acquisition, Authentic Writing, and Transformative Education. As a researcher she has published extensively bringing to the curriculum an awareness of the richness of the Hispanic culture.

Her many accolades include ALA Notables, the San Francisco Library Award, the Reading the World Award from the University of San Francisco, the NABE Ramón Santiago Award, the International Latino Children’s Book Award, and nine Junior Library Guild selections. In 2014 she was inducted to the North American Academy of the Spanish Language where she is the President of the Children’s Literacy and Literature Commission. The California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) has established in her name an endowment to provide scholarships for future bilingual educators.

Visit Isabel on the web at http://isabelcampoy.com or follow her on Twitter @fisabelcampoy

Maybe Something Beautiful is the winner of the 2017 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Book Award!