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I'm Talking to You, Corded!The mismatch of technology and picture books.

By Erica S. Perl
Posted Thursday, May 8, 2008, at 7:08 AM ET

Click here to launch a slide show on technology in kids' books.Technology, as we well know, has become a ubiquitous part of American children's lives. With their Baby Einstein DVDs and Leapfrog Baby laptops, even little kids are heading all too close to the parody of the cell-phone-gabbing stroller rider in this paradigmatic New Yorker cartoon. And yet there is one place—a whole world, actually—where children are safely walled off from wired and wireless devices. That is the world of picture books.

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Erica S. Perl is the author of Ninety-Three in My Family and Chicken Bedtime Is Really Early. She has also written two novels for young people that are forthcoming from Harcourt, and she contributes to Pajamazon, the children's book column at Offsprung.com.
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