This book offers a range of perspectives on children's multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engage with popular culture, media and digital literacy practices from their earliest years.

1. Introduction: Children of the Digital Age Part 1: Changing Childhood Cultures 2. New textual landscapes, information and early literacy 3. Ritual, performance and identity construction: Young children's engagement with popular cultural and media texts 4. Veronica: An asset model of becoming literate 5. Bilingual children's uses of popular culture in text-making Part 2 Children and Technologies 6. Watching Teletubbies : Television and its very young audience 7. The CD-ROM game: A toddler engaged in computer-based dramatic play 8. Narrative spaces and multiple identities: Children's textual explorations of console games in home settings 9. 'Pronto, chi parla? (Hello, who is it?'): Telephones as artefacts and communication media in children's discourses Part 3: Transformative Pedagogies 10. Popular culture: Views of parents and educators 11. Barbie meets Bob the Builder at the Workstation: The word on screen/ E-mergent literacies in the early years 12. Resistance, power-tricky, and colourless energy: What engagement with everyday popular culture texts can teach us about learning, and literacy 13. Behind the scenes: Making movies in early years classrooms.