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The article discusses how digital illustration could reimagine the way books are illustrated and the way they work. Digital illustration has been made to mimic traditional techniques, but in the form of ebooks, it could do much more. Images could move across the screen in a way unimaginable on paper. Already, David Macaulay's "Black and White," Art Spiegelman's "Open Me...I'm a Dog!," and David Wiesner's "The Three Pigs" are playing with traditional ideas of books and paper.

The article explains the technique involved in pulp painting, a technique used in illustrating children's books. The technique involves pouring cotton rag fiber that is suspended in water through hand-cut stencils onto a screen, creating an image in handmade paper. The author describes the advantages and disadvantages of the technique.