This book explores the distinct approaches of conversation analysis (CA) and cultural historical theory (CHT) to investigations of childhood storytelling with children aged 15 months to nine  years. The authors  draw on a rich set of data that depict children’s interactions with parents, teachers and peers as they talk together after having read stories, as they recount their experiences, as they enact stories through play, and as they participate in school activities in science and in literacy activities. The book demonstrates the matters that concern CA and CHT and explore in what ways...