Beverly Cleary’s life speaks volumes: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
This is a nice interview with Cleary about her childhood, her inspiration, and her most famous character, Ramona.

Scholastic has launched a new site that focuses on summer reading. It offers booklists for children grades K-8, articles on how parents can help their children love reading, activities to inspire reading, and interactive presentations on how to be a reading coach and how to create a home that inspires kids to read.

Kids Web is a collection of recommended links for children grades K-12. Sites are categorized into arts, sciences, social studies, and miscellaneous. The pages are updated weekly. Also included are a list of other digital libraries and other collections of web sites for children.

New York Public Library offers WordSmiths, a website where teens can publish poetry and short stories. Submissions are welcome from outside of New York.

Debbi Michiko Florence’s Library – Children’s Fiction is a great site filled with things for those interested in children’s lit. From interviews with award-winning authors, to book reviews, this site offers just what many people are looking for: quality content.

Purple Pyjamas is an advice and humor site for girls. It offers information on dating, health, and sex and has other sections on creativity, entertainment, fun, humor, life and opinion. The site also has forums and a chat room, and claims to have new content every day.