The Next Generation of Children’s Storytelling: Interactive Enhanced eBooks

Much like the generations of adults that have come before me, I was raised on traditional print-based storybooks at bedtime. The tradition of reading children’s books has crossed the thresholds of economic, geographic, and social barriers across the world for countless years. It is easy to say that most children have been read a story from a picture book at some point within their early development.

However, unlike the older generations, a new and exciting trend in storytelling has emerged into the lives of the newest generation of readers. Today’s children have been born into a technological world, where they have developed an innate understanding of technology and digital devices from the time they could hold them on their own.  The time of the enhanced interactive eBook is here, and with it come a unique set of educational and interactive-based problems. (Read On)

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