Roy Berocay

Roy Berocay (born 1955) is a journalist and an author of children's literature from Uruguay.

Berocay was born in Montevideo in 1955. He has five children and six grandchildren. In 1986 he published his first novel, Pescasueños. Later on, he started writing children's books, for which he has become widely recognized, as much for his stories about the Ruperto toad as for other widely known novels such as The craziest grandfather in the world (1994), Kicking Moons (1991), and Small wing (1998).

In addition to being a journalist, he is also musician and composer. He was guitarist, composer and singer for a Uruguayan rock and blues group the Count of Saint Germain, and is currently a member of the rock band Conspiracy.

• Saga del Sapo Ruperto (Saga of Ruperto the toad):
  • Las aventuras del sapo ruperto (1994)
  • Ruperto detective (1997)
  • Ruperto insiste (1999)
  • Ruperto de terror III (1995)
  • Ruperto al rescate (1999)
  • Ruperto contraataca
• El abuelo más loco del mundo (1994)
• Lucas, el fantastico (1997)
• Siete cuentos sin sapo (1998])
• La triologia juvenil:
  • Pequeña Ala (1998)
  • La niebla (2001)
  • Tan azul (2004)
• Pateando Lunas (1993)
• Los telepiratas (1999)
• Babu (1999)
• Un mundo perfecto (2000)
• El país de las cercanías 1 y 2 (2001, 2002)
• Las semillas de lo bueno (2005)