How did technology create distance between the child and the book?

Correct answer: Children became used to telebooks instead of paper books

The governing idea is that repeated use of a new medium can make an older medium seem unfamiliar. Margie and Tommy are accustomed to telebooks, whose words move on a screen and can be read digitally. When Tommy finds a printed book from the past, Margie is surprised that the words remain fixed on the page and that the pages do not change as they are read. Technology has not literally banned books or stopped children from reading; rather, it has changed their habits and expectations about what a book should be. Option A captures this distance accurately. Options B and C are exaggerations, and D reverses the story because the children use machines, not only oral teaching.