ABSTRACT

A simple talking book with animated events ‘Examples/Chapter12/Ronnie.dir’ is a single page from a 16-page talking book.Figure 12.1 shows the main action.As the movie starts we hear a narrator reading the words, which are highlighted as the words are spoken. Once the text has been read, the action parks on a looping animation of the two key characters.At this stage, the child can click on the green ball to have the text read again or

click an individual word to have that single word spoken. As you move the cursor over the page, it changes to a different shape when we have a clickable event. There are eight ‘clickables’on the page:

juggling giraffe monkey in the tree screaming bush spaceship snake into rucksack the map flying away bats flying out a joke.