Stories presented on phones, tablets and e-readers now offer an alternative to print books.
The fundamental challenge has become to specify when and for whom the manner in which
children retain information from stories has been changed by electronic storybooks, for
better and for worse. We review the effects of digitized presentations of narratives that
include oral text as well as multimedia information sources (eg, animations and other visual
and sound effects, background music, hotspots, games, dictionaries) on children's emergent …