Anna Filipi is Associate Professor in Education at Monash University, Australia. Her research is in conversation analysis and storytellings of young children (aged 12 to 36 months) and spatial interactions of older children (aged seven and 12). She has also researched language alternation practices in high-school and in higher education. Christina Davidson is Associate Professor in Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Her  research focuses on conversation analysis of young children’s social interactions with adults and with other children. She has published extensively on social interactions in literacy lessons and during use of digital technologies in the home and at preschool. Nikolay Veresov is Associate Professor in Education at Monash University, Australia. His area of interest is child development in the early years, cultural-historical theory and research methodology.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Never the two shall meet.- Chapter 2. Conversation Analysis.- Chapter 3. Cultural Historical Methodological Approaches to Analysis.- Chapter 4. Details of the data and approaches to analysis.- Chapter 5. Storybook reading interactions.- Chapter 6. Telling and sharing stories.- Chapter 7. Conclusions, applications and recommendations.

Anna Filipi is Associate Professor in Education at Monash University, Australia. Her research is in conversation analysis and storytellings of young children (aged 12 to 36 months) and spatial interactions of older children (aged seven and 12). She has also researched language alternation practices in high-school and in higher education. Christina Davidson is Associate Professor in Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Her  research focuses on conversation analysis of young children’s social interactions with adults and with other children. She has published extensively on social interactions in literacy lessons and during use of digital technologies in the home and at preschool. Nikolay Veresov is Associate Professor in Education at Monash University, Australia. His area of interest is child development in the early years, cultural-historical theory and research methodology.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Never the two shall meet.- Chapter 2. Conversation Analysis.- Chapter 3. Cultural Historical Methodological Approaches to Analysis.- Chapter 4. Details of the data and approaches to analysis.- Chapter 5. Storybook reading interactions.- Chapter 6. Telling and sharing stories.- Chapter 7. Conclusions, applications and recommendations.

Anna Filipi is Associate Professor in Education at Monash University, Australia. Her research is in conversation analysis and storytellings of young children (aged 12 to 36 months) and spatial interactions of older children (aged seven and 12). She has also researched language alternation practices in high-school and in higher education. Christina Davidson is Associate Professor in Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Her  research focuses on conversation analysis of young children’s social interactions with adults and with other children. She has published extensively on social interactions in literacy lessons and during use of digital technologies in the home and at preschool. Nikolay Veresov is Associate Professor in Education at Monash University, Australia. His area of interest is child development in the early years, cultural-historical theory and research methodology.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Never the two shall meet.- Chapter 2. Conversation Analysis.- Chapter 3. Cultural Historical Methodological Approaches to Analysis.- Chapter 4. Details of the data and approaches to analysis.- Chapter 5. Storybook reading interactions.- Chapter 6. Telling and sharing stories.- Chapter 7. Conclusions, applications and recommendations.