ABSTRACT
Children learn to interpret moving images at a very young age. In the 21st century, they process these moving images in ever more complex ways. This chapter explores the contemporary challenges of changes in the world of film, television, app, and live video conversation. Part of the difficulty lies in the fact that young children’s emerging literate understanding is rooted in the exigencies of their home life and it is difficult to gain relatively natural access to their domestic routines. In addition to such components of moving image communication, children come to terms with issues of modality, an old concept with a new and extended contemporary application. Contemporary Western children inhabit a world full of moving images. An instructive comparison between a paper book, a faithful adaptation into a YouTube film, and an app version allows to pursue the different reader actions invited by different kinds of moving image.
