E-books are “broken” in several ways that are important to kids, not the least of which is that paper books are super useful as floors in really tall block buildings.
On the extinction of paper children’s books
if the story is being told to you so much that it leaves no room for you to interpret, for you to understand and for you to imagine - where are you going? you always need to leave room in our mind to process, juxtapose and grow. maybe that’s the scary part - if someone else is telling so much of the story for you, what’s the point?

