The concentration of minors found on either side of the border between Mexico and the United States is “a terrible problem,” according to writer and educator Isabel Campoy.

Isabel Campoy (Alicante, 1946) can be considered the voice of the Spanish speakers of the United States. His are a good part of the textbooks with which both the natives who adopt it as a second language and the 55 million Latinos who do not want to forget their roots north of the Rio Grande study Spanish. Also his are several dozen bilingual children’s and young people’s books in a literary career with which he has achieved that the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), one of the 23 that make up the Association of Spanish Language Academies, has put its name and that of the co-author of the texts, the Cuban Alma Flor Ada, to an award dedicated to children’s literature in Spanish.

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