I’m so excited. I just read Dr. Seuss’s One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish to my granddaughter in another state using the MacOS Books and FaceTime apps. Since we’d already read this on a couch together a few times, she sometimes explained a page to her father before I read it to her. Or she got excited and spoke lines before or with me.

At this young age (preschool), it helped that a parent was sitting next to her. That took care of the cuddle element that one usually gets when being read to. It also helped reduce the distraction of background voices in the house.

I did this on my desktop using split view, devoting a small part of the screen to her face. On the other end, they used an iPad to follow along. They saw the book open to two pages along with my face because I was sharing my whole screen in FaceTime.