The Misrule Blog is written by Judith Ridge, who posts about children’s literature from an Australian perspective.

The Purple Crayon offers information on creating children’s books, including writing, illustration and publishing. It provides news, a collection of links, recommended books, and interesting articles.

kidSPEAK! :. Where Kids Speak Out for Free Speech! started to give kids a way to speak out against the censoring of Harry Potter across the nation but has burgeoned into a website offering information on the first amendment and tangible examples of how kids and teens are fighting for their rights. This is especially important in view of the study that came out showing that almost have the kids surveyed did NOT believe that newspapers should be able to publish stories WITHOUT government approval! Amazing, frightening, and very sad.

Eclipse offers several online pieces for children’s literature study. This site from Rutgers University has information on Mother Goose rhymes and a section on the creation of Petra Mathers’ Kisses from Rose, a picture book, from conception through revisions.

Book Moot is a blog that doesn’t declare itself as being all about children’s lit, but it is! Just take a look at the author links, reading lists, and her postings. Another great children’s lit blog added to my blogroll.

Forever by Judy Blume has been banned within the Pasadena Independent School District, removed from both intermediate and high school libraries. Sadly, the reconsideration committee advised that the book be retained in the high schools, but the superintendent decided to remove it entirely.
Now surely Forever can’t still be the big news in young adult novels! I mean, please, Forever was the big news when I was a teen. It was the book that wasn’t in our school library and that we had to head to the public library to read. The one that one kid brought to school that was passed around from kid to kid.
I am continually amazed at what is being targeted by parents in school districts. Let’s all take a deep breath and remember exactly what we were reading as teens. In most cases, it was probably this book!

ALA | Children & the Internet: Policies that Work replaces the 1998 document on the same subject. The new document includes a series of articles covering subjects like community input, Internet safety, filtering, effective policies, sample policies, and related links.

Scholastic is offering a Harry Potter: Downloadable Countdown! that is a desktop countdown clock with daily Harry Potter facts.

VOYA’s Pure Poetry is an article available online that lists VOYA’s poetry picks for 2004. These are poetry books for teens that were published between June 2004 and April 2005.