Check out the link to the first ever Facebook performance of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing from Weekly Reader magazine: http://www.weeklyreader.com/ado.
Recently, I've tweeted Enchantment author Guy Kawasaki and The Informationist author Taylor Stevens. To my surprise, they tweeted back! Pretty cool! Anyway, I think children would be further engaged in reading for fun by being able to follow their favorite authors on Twitter. Best of all, you don't need a Twitter account to read the feeds!
List of Children's Picture Book Authors and Illustrators: http://t.co/jgwWDGP