Dr. Elizabeth Dobler As ereaders and other digital devices make their way into classrooms and the hands of young children, educators and caregivers must become more aware of digital book quality. This presentation shares issues of quality and a digital book evaluation rubric, created from input by teachers, librarians, and principals.

1. Evaluating Digital Children's Books
Elizabeth Dobler

5. deictic

6. 81%
reading on the Kindle
supported their reading
comprehension
Larson, 2013

7. 81% prefer a Kindle
15% prefer regular print
4% no preference
Larson, 2013

8. Teachers in Training
48%
have read an ebook for pleasure
27%
have read a digital textbook
Dobler, 2013, ALER

13. Garbage! Monster! Burp!
by Tom Watson
Axel the Truck
by J. D. Riley and Brandon Dorman

16. reading options
user friendliness
appropriateness
polished appearance

18. In what ways do ebooks
impact our reading process
and our view of ourselves
as readers?