Despite the explosion of the Internet and various new media, child stories are still what most people want – whether they are adults or children themselves.Nonetheless, I wonder if we can’t learn something from the new media?I think that the greatest lesson that the Internet and other new media have to teach us is that human beings love interactive media. Although we love to “veg” in front of the TV sometimes, we also love to get involved in whatever entertainment we view. This is why young people surf the Internet more than they watch TV and why the 30 second TV commercial is no longer as effective as a form of advertising.But what does this mean for children’s stories? I’d like to suggest that we can now go beyond child stories that merely tell a story in an asynchronous (one-way) fashion. We can find ways to let kids (and parents) get actively involved.Here are 7 ways you could turn your child story into a multi-media, interactive learning experience.#1 Add some background materialWhether your story is about Mongolian nomads, extraterrestrials or even just a housecat, you can always include some factual material that would be interesting. You could write it as…