How ironic. I just downloaded OpenShot for my wife a couple weeks ago because she's interested in doing food videos on dTube :) And yes I played around with it and it's quite easy. Just not sure how to tie writing and books to a video channel.
<--off to do some research
Maybe you could read a page or two and create a storybook of images to flow with what's being said - not sure i've seen this type of content actually!? :D
Hmmmm...