The story behind Mananas

I didn’t set out to create an emotional learning brand. I set out to be a better mother — and to understand why so many of us struggle to talk about feelings with our children.

Before Mananas, I spent years working in design, branding, education, and family-centered communication. Across cultures, languages, and learning spaces, I kept noticing the same gap: children feel deeply, but adults often lack simple tools to help them name and express what they feel.

My Latin American background, my work with multilingual families, and my own journey as a bilingual mother all pointed to the same idea: emotional literacy should feel natural, creative, and accessible.

Mananas was born from that belief — a colorful way to help children and families feel, grow, and connect.

Hello Hi

"There are so many parents raising little humans without the tools to help them process what they feel, not out of negligence, but out of simply not knowing."

Mananas exists because emotional literacy is not a cultural luxury, it is a foundation. And building that foundation for bilingual, multicultural families in the United States is work that matters far beyond any single book or family.

Bilingual children develop stronger problem-solving skills, deeper cognitive flexibility, and greater capacity for attention, not despite navigating two languages, but because of it. The brain that learns to switch, adapt, and hold two worlds at once is a brain being trained for resilience.


Mananas is my answer to that gap. Built for the kitchen table, the bedtime routine, the car ride when your child says something that stops you cold — and you want to be ready to meet them there. Not a perfect answer. But an honest one.


There is also something else I believe deeply: learning more than one language as a child is one of the greatest gifts a family can give. Not just culturally, neurologically.
What the research tells us

27%

of children under 6 in the U.S. are learning a language other than English at home

6 mo.

Bilingual infants show enhanced language awareness as early as 6 months old

Age 0–8

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More gray matter

Bilingual children retain more brain matter as they grow, especially in areas linked to attention and executive control

Sources: University of Washington; University of Reading / Brain Structure and Function, 2020; U.S. Census Bureau

Background & credentials

The experience behind the method

Mananas is built on more than a decade of practice at the intersection of design, child psychology, and cross-cultural communication.

B.A. in Graphic Design

Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano — Colombia. Foundation in visual communication, color theory, typography, and design thinking.

2000s

Founder & Creative Director

EA Creativo — Cali, Colombia Brand strategy, visual systems, and communication for educational, cultural, and wellness brands.

2015–2021

Creative Director

EA Project Inc. — United States Cross-cultural branding and communication across the U.S., Latin America, and Europe.

2015–2021

Photographer — Families & Children

Disney Parks & Resorts — United States Observed multicultural family dynamics, child expression, parent-child interaction, and emotional moments in real time.

2023–2025
Ongoing

Strategic Branding Partner

iLingo Academy — Multilingual Early Education Experience with multilingual early education, preschool communication, and family-centered learning.

2025

Diploma in Child Psychology

Alison — Online Professional Development Specialized training in child development, emotional regulation, and early childhood emotional needs.

2025

Course in How to Effectively Communicate with Children

Alison — Online Professional Development Tools and techniques for age-appropriate emotional communication.

2025 - 2026

Founder — Mananas

Built a bilingual emotional learning ecosystem through books, activities, color, symbols, and creative expression.

Impact so far

A generation that can name its Feelings

Mananas launched in August 2025 with no advertising budget and no institutional distribution, just a belief that the right tool, in the right hands, finds its way to the families that need it most.

90+

Books distributed
Through Amazon - Organic growth only

5-star

Average rating across all titles
100% five-star reviews

3

Bilingual titles published
English · Spanish

What makes these numbers meaningful is their context: zero paid advertising, zero institutional partnerships, zero formal distribution — just word of mouth among families, educators, and community members who recognized a gap and shared the books with others.

The Mananas collection has reached families across the United States and internationally through Amazon’s global marketplace, with bilingual readers spanning English-dominant and Spanish-dominant households alike.

Real words from little readers and families

Early feedback from parents, children, and verified Amazon readers.

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