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.
[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] There are studies indicating that some students will simply "cruise through" a story, either just playing with the graphics or not trying to read it themselves.