Corded

Slate has an excellent slideshow presentation today, called Corded!, about the depiction of technology in children’s books and why it’s often so out of date.  It also features examples of of recent books that use modern technology in unique and engaging ways. I’m going to have to look for a copy of Jellybeans, by Sylvia van Ommen, in which the characters plan an outing via text message and then one (a cat,) rides a bike and wears a messenger bag with a cellphone pocket on his way to the park.

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