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 work has been published in Argentina, France, Spain, Italy, South Korea, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia. 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.Kit Maude is a translator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has translated dozens of Latin American and Spanish writers for a wide array of publications and writes reviews for Ñ, Otra Parte, and the Times Literary Supplement.

"Camp's naïve-style illustrations provide a suitably off-kilter atmosphere for this humorous tale translated from Spanish ... The surrealist humor and obvious dissonance between Aldo's narration and the illustrations will make this tale a big hit with some readers ... A curious confection for audiences open to absurdism"--Kirkus Reviews

"When Aldo, a shaggy gray dog with an imperious air, discovers that he has transformed into a ghost, he commits to his new life with the zeal of a method actor. As an invisible ghost, he steals food from picnickers in the park and swaps his bark for a 'boo.' Readers ages 4 to 8 will quickly catch on to the joke, which the author and illustrator Joaquín Camp unspools with wry humor in Aldo: Ghost Dog, translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude ... Aldo's conviction in his paranormal abilities is delivered with such charming aloofness, it's more fun to set logic aside ... With Aldo: Ghost Dog, Mr. Camp has created a character to amuse adult and young readers alike ..." --The Wall Street Journal

Publisher: Tapioca Stories

Pub date: 2024-09-03

Length: 36 pages