Ebooks Children Would Want to Read and Engage with

This paper describes an effort to build a bookshelf of electronic books for children. Reading is a very personal experience and, when considering children 6-9 years old, even reading for pleasure is intertwined with learning and getting essential lifelong skills. As children in the Western world are increasingly interacting with technology from a very young age, it is often the case they are exposed and enjoy playing, browsing and searching the web, even before their reading and writing skills are fully developed. Besides, we have experienced in previous studies how extremely positive is children’s attitude toward technology and this is worth exploiting when considering an essential and demanding skill such as reading. On this basis, we believe electronic books have lot of potential in engaging and getting children more enthusiastic about reading. Of course prope