Interactive storybook

An interactive storybook (or CD-ROM storybook) is a children's story packaged with animated graphics, sound or other interactive elements (e.g., word pronunciation). Such stories are usually published as software on CD-ROMs. They have also been referred to as computer books[1], picture book programs,[1] books-on-disk,[2] talking books,[3][4] or living books.[4]

This software is targeted at young readers (usually kindergarten to second grade) for educational purposes.

In their seminal work To Instruct and Delight: Children's and Young Adults' Literature on CD-ROM, H. Bennett wrote, "Something magical and non-threatening happens when a children's story weds a computer."[5]

Children's Tech Review wrote that when a children's book comes to a touch screen, it can be called many names, including: “ebooks,” “living books,” “digital story books,” or even “app books.”[6]

  1. ^ a b Beaty, Janice J. (2013-01-01). Preschool Appropriate Practices: Environment, Curriculum, and Development. Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1-285-49995-6.
  2. ^ "Kids will love ROMping through these stories". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  3. ^ Diegmueller, Karen (1995-05-03). "'Talking Books' Pressed Into Classroom Service - Education Week". Education Week. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  4. ^ a b http://pdf.textfiles.com/zines/CGW/1992_07_issue96.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  5. ^ "Literature and CD-ROM: Strange Bedfellows or the Marriage of True Minds?" by Griffin, J. R. - Computers in Libraries, Vol. 16, Issue 5, May 1996". Archived from the original on 2020-10-31.
  6. ^ Says, Adidas Zx Flux Sizing Review. "What (exactly) is an App? | Children's Technology Review". Archived from the original on 2020-06-20. Retrieved 2020-11-01.