Here's a very moving blog post by Sandhya Rao who writes for children, and travelled recently to Sri Lanka to interact with a bunch of kids there http://tulikapublishers.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-can-books-do.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TulikaBooks+%28Tulika+Books%29