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Francisca Isabel Campoy is a published author of over a hundred books for children in the areas of fiction and non-fiction, poetry, theatre, biography and art. Her work aims at providing children the key to interpret the world in a fun, challenging and affirmative way.
F. Isabel Campoy is a researcher, and author in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Children's Literature written in Spanish. She is the author of several series for the teaching of English as a Foreign Language and as a Second Language. Her research has been published in seven texts on Language Arts and Parental involvement. She is an international speaker on multicultural issues, Second Language Acquisition, and Creative Writing.
Isabel did her undergraduate work at the University Complutense of Madrid where she received her Licenciatura degree in English Philology. She did her graduate studies in the universities of Reading, England, UCLA, California and Complutense University in Madrid, Spain.
F. Isabel Campoy received the Laureate Award from San Francisco Public Library and the Reading the World Award of children's literature in 2005. She is a member of the American Academy of Poets as well as of several organizations for the advancement of multicultural awareness and world peace.

Early life.

Isabel spent her first 16 years living in Spain, at a time in which dictator Generalisimo Franco had total control of every aspect of life. To escape from an oppressive atmosphere she applied to the American Field Service Scholarship, which she won in 1963. Passing all necessary competitive examinations granted her the opportunity to come to the United States and study at Trenton High School, in Michigan. That experience changed her life forever. Although she arrived to the States with a fair knowledge of the English language (her father was an English professor in Alicante and patiently requested his four children to speak English at home), the culture she encountered in the States required a profound adaptation and a deep understanding of self and others, here and back home. She learned to observe, to compare and contrast, to analyze and to draw similarities and differences in human beings, societies, beliefs, and ways to see life. Soon she had a world of her own that she learned to translate in order to be part of two worlds.
Translating was actually how she helped her income while in the university in Valencia first, and in Madrid later. Every penny was always spent in travels. Knowing other costumes, other people’s way to live life took her first to every corner of Galicia, Cataluña, País Vasco, Andalucía, Extremadura, País Valenciano, León, Castilla-La Mancha, Aragón. Spain, a country the size of Texas, has four official languages and one of the richest and most varied cultural traditions in Europe. She traveled taking pictures, and taking notes.
From Spain she extended her trips first to the nearby countries, of Portugal, France, Morocco, and then the rest of the world.
She is still traveling.
Some of her books are: Pio Peep! Ten Little Puppies, Mu, Moo!, Rosa Raposa, My Day From A to Z, Blue and Green, Eyes of the Jaguar, A New Job for Pérez the Mouse, On the Wings of the Condor, One, Two, Three who can it be?, Paths, The Quetzal's Journey, Smiles,Steps, Voices, Curtains Up!, Dreaming Fish, Flying Dragon, Laughlin Crocodiles, Singing Horse, Top hat.

Also with Alma Flor Ada and Suni Paz she has published Música amiga, a series of ten CD containing 120 songs both from the Spanish folklore and based on her original poetry.

She has co-authored with Alma Flor Ada a series of books for the teaching of writing, home-school interaction, and bilingual education. AUTHORS IN THE CLASSROOM: A Transformative Education Process contains their philosophy on writing, for teachers, students and their families.

As an educator, Francisca (F.) Isabel Campoy is the author of seven Hougton Mifflin Harcourt Reading series: Trofeos,(Trophies), Villacuentos (Storytown), Cielo abierto (Signatures), Vamos de fiesta (Collections), Excursiones en California (Excursions), Senderos (Journeys), as well as Moving into English.

With Del Sol Publishing she has published two videos about her work: Huellas de mi palabra, (Path to my Word), and The Encounter with Spanish Folklore.

Frog Street Press has recently published her work for Pre-K students both in English and Spanish.

You can visit her at www.isabelcampoy.com

Francisca Isabel Campoy is a published author of over a hundred books for children in the areas of fiction and non-fiction, poetry, theatre, biography and art. Her work aims at providing children the key to interpret the world in a fun, challenging and affirmative way. F. Isabel Campoy is a researcher, and author in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Children's Literature written in Spanish. Sh... More