Joaquín Camp
Joaquín Camp was born in Buenos Aires in 1987 and now lives in Madrid. He studied graphic design at Buenos Aires University, where he also taught illustration. As an illustrator, he has worked with publishing houses in Argentina, Spain, Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Saudi Arabia. His work was selected for Bologna Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition in 2019, and he won the International Illustrated Picture Book Contest for his book Anibal, the Ghost Dog in 2020.
Micaela Chirif
Illustrated by Joaquín Camp
Translated from the Spanish by Jordan Landsman
2024 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book
2025 USBBY Outstanding International Books
Little Elisa can’t stop crying and no one knows why. After a sleepless night, it takes a grandmother’s touch—and an explosive fart—to bring much-needed relief.
One night, little Elisa begins to cry. At first her crying resembles a cat’s meow. But it soon grows so loud that the flowers wilt and the birds fly out the window. We move her bed so she can see the moon, we wrap her up warm, cool her down, and tie a red ribbon to her wrist. But nothing works. We all wonder: Why is she crying?
After a long sleepless night, it takes a grandmother’s touch to finally find out. Elisa lets out a fart that sounds like a plane taking off in the middle of the living room, nine blenders whirring at full power, twenty-seven moaning hair dryers . . .
An irreverent story about the wind that passes through us all, A SLEEPLESS NIGHT shows that seemingly complicated problems can have simpler solutions than we think.
Ages 3+ | Hardcover | 48 pages | ISBN: 9798893389050
September 24, 2024