Winner of the Best Picture Book Award at the Biblioteca Insular de Gran Canaria, Spain, 2020.
Fundación Cuatrogatos Award, 2022
Joaquín Camp is an author and illustrator born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1987.
He studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires.
His illustrations were selected for the Bologna Children's Book Fair in 2019, the Catálogo Iberoamérica Ilustra in 2016, and again in 2020 with honorary mention.
In 2020, his picture book Aldo: Ghost Dog, originally published in Spain, received the award for the Best Illustrated Book from the Biblioteca Insular de Gran Canaria, 2020.
He currently lives in Madrid.
Tapioca Stories is a New York-based publishing house with a Latin American soul.
They introduces young English readers to the finest Latin American children's books, originally written in Spanish and Portuguese.
Tapioca Stories carefully selects and translates children's books written and illustrated by unique and ingenious contemporary Latin American authors and illustrators.
They want children to discover the diversity and commonalities between people from all corners of this world, believing that exposing children to new perspectives early on can encourage them to grow into more empathic, perceptive, and thoughtful adults.
The Tapioca team knows how to find the greatest stories with the most surprising narratives and beautiful, stunning art illustrations to express ideas beyond words...and borders. We are bringing in the best of our home collection, books that we love from our childhood, and those we carefully selected to read to our children – books that intensify emotions, foster curiosity, and make children’s imaginations fly.