This book is a historical and comparative study of the movable book -- media that crosses the borders between game and narrative -- as interactive narrative media in relation to the implied and actual child interactors who engage with them. The interrelation among children, interactive media, and participatory culture is usually thought of as a contemporary phenomenon, particularly associated with digital media such as computer games. Reid-Walsh focuses on the period movable books first became connected with children in the mid-17th century and extending to the...
This book is a historical and comparative study of the movable book -- media that crosses the borders between game and narrative -- as interactive ...