The Emo-Pro (Emotion and Pronunciation) storybooks by Stella Palavecino are a charming and engaging collection of tales designed to teach phonics to very young learners of English. The stories are highly enjoyable and offer an innovative approach to raising awareness among children about the pronunciation of English sounds, particularly those absent in their mother tongue. The storylines are entertaining, and the artwork is truly praiseworthy, capturing the essence of the narrative with vibrant and imaginative illustrations. Both the characters and the illustrations are captivating and age- appropriate, ensuring that children are not only entertained but also encouraged to explore the world of phonics in a natural and playful way. The accompanying lesson plans, games, and activities offer useful support for educators implementing this book in their teaching curriculum. Overall, "The Emo-Pron" series is an invaluable tool for teaching pronunciation to young learners of English and a significant contribution to the teaching of English as a foreign/secondary language.

Stella is an extremely creative and talented author. Her imagination introduces young learners into a fantastic world in which magic and reality are melted into one thing: the happiness of learning by reading. In this way, she brings us the Emo-pron approach. That is why Stella’s books are full of funny images and attractive stories that will certainly foster children to improve the movements required for a good articulation and pronunciation of the most difficult English sounds. Through her lovely stories, Stella highlights the importance of using appropriate language tools as well as entertaining children in ESL classrooms. Because these books are a great opportunity for children to get meaningful learning, they are worth being included in our lesson plans. What is more, among other skills, reading has become a priority concerning education policy in Argentina from now on. All in all, Stella’s engaging Emo-pron Stories are a must have.

From my experience as a teacher trainer, I must say that most teachers find working on pronunciation difficult to include in their lessons. Unlike grammar and vocabulary, pronunciation work seems to have been deprived of proper contextualization in coursebooks and other materials available to teachers. While reading the Emo-pron stories by Stella Palavecino, I was delighted to discover that they provide a narrative thread suitable for young learners, in which a conflict has to be sorted out by learning the phonological content. I deeply believe in conflict as the non-linguistic axis of units and lessons, and in the Emo-pron stories, conflict appears to have a crucial role in that it generates the activity to learn something linguistic such the recognition and articulation of a sound to solve the problem in the narrative, which happens to be non-linguistic. It is all done with a good sense of humour, magical characters and enormous creativity, embedded in the emotional power of stories.

I am a fellow EFL teacher teaching English and Spanish in the UK. I am really interested in pronunciation and absolutely love your Emo-Pron Stories. I also believe that pronunciation should be made accessible to all and your work is truly fascinating. As a teacher with Spanish students I also have experience teaching spelling and the differences in pronunciation in class. I just wanted to reach out to say how much I enjoy your books and would love to hear your thoughts.

I personally think that Emo-pron stories are really captivating.They develop the child's fantasy in such a way that he or she manages to produce sounds naturally, being caught by their plots. Emo-pron stories also help young learners acquire English pronunciation through analogies which are familiar to them, such as the alveolar ridge with a “comfy sofa”..The use of jawbreakers, catchy songs, riddles, etc help young learners learn more easily and spontaneously . What is really important to point out, is that unlike traditional stories whose goal is to leave a moral teaching, Emo-pron stories have as a final goal, acquiring a new articulatory habit. This feature is highly innovative and children love it

These are amazing stories which are ideal for learning and practicing sounds in a funny way. It is strongly recommended that you incorporate them in your lessons. Argentina needs an approach to teach children all skills and especially pronunciation is so hard. Thank you for preparing this material, Stella Pallavecino. Congratulations! : )

I found the stories appealing to children, easy to follow and really helpful for teachers who want to work on their students' awareness of the sound system of both English and Spanish languages. They can help students better identify sounds, improve sound articulation and associate the spelling of words to specific sounds. I love to work with these stories with children at school. All in all, I would say that the Emopron stories are an excellent complement to any language book in EFL programmes. They provide teachers with supportive material to focus on students' pronunciation and problematic sounds using playful activities that will maintain children's attention and encourage them to work on their own pronunciation and boost reading skills.

'Children are captivated by Emo-pron stories. Narration conflicts aid in learning unfamiliar sounds and the letters they represent. Reading is fun!’ This is so important sicne in an EFL context, children need to learn new words, new sounds, and new spellings .It's overwhelming! With Emo-pron stories, we teach all at once and turn children’s classrooms into happy places.’

‘The novelty lies not in the stories themselves but in how they're designed to address the challenges faced by Spanish speakers in producing certain sounds absent in their mother tongue.Children love the tricks to play with new sounds and singing along the letters the sounds represent.’