Katharina J. Rohlfing is Professor of Psycholinguistics at Paderborn University, Germany. Claudia Müller-Brauers is Professor for German Didactics at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.

• Part 1. Learning and interaction with digital devices. 1.Promising interactive functions in digital storybooks for young children. 2.Cognitively activating and emotionally attuning interactions: Their relevance for language and literacy learning and teaching with digital media. 3.Exploring Media Practices in Inclusive Early Childhood Settings. 4. The caregiver’s role in keeping a child–robot interaction going. 5. Beyond words: Children’s multimodal responses during word learning with a social robot. Part 2. (Early) Literacy learning with digital media. 6. Promising interactive functions in digital storybooks for young children. 7. A look into the future: How digital tools may advance language development. 8. Designing apps to facilitate first and second language acquisition in children. 9. Digital children’s literature in the interplay between visuality and animation: A model for analyzing picture book apps and their potential for children’s story comprehension, 10. DAZonline.ch: A gallery of annotated interactive pictures for cross-situational language learning.

Katharina J. Rohlfing is Professor of Psycholinguistics at Paderborn University, Germany. Claudia Müller-Brauers is Professor for German Didactics at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.

• Part 1. Learning and interaction with digital devices. 1.Promising interactive functions in digital storybooks for young children. 2.Cognitively activating and emotionally attuning interactions: Their relevance for language and literacy learning and teaching with digital media. 3.Exploring Media Practices in Inclusive Early Childhood Settings. 4. The caregiver’s role in keeping a child–robot interaction going. 5. Beyond words: Children’s multimodal responses during word learning with a social robot. Part 2. (Early) Literacy learning with digital media. 6. Promising interactive functions in digital storybooks for young children. 7. A look into the future: How digital tools may advance language development. 8. Designing apps to facilitate first and second language acquisition in children. 9. Digital children’s literature in the interplay between visuality and animation: A model for analyzing picture book apps and their potential for children’s story comprehension, 10. DAZonline.ch: A gallery of annotated interactive pictures for cross-situational language learning.