This article discusses how the web enhances the reading of children's literature / young adult literature and promotes the creation/ sharing between interpretative communities. It problematizes the place of this literary matrix at the Academy, the role of the social web in literary and cultural education of young people and the web challenge in new readerships. Key-words: Web2.0, Reading, Children's literature/Young adult literature, interpretative communities, readers development. O QUE NOS DIZEM OS TEORICOS DA ACADEMIA? A literatura infantil/juvenil tem sido, desde sempre, objeto de elevada controversia. Sao, com efeito, varios os investigadores que sublinham as dificuldades de definicao conceptual (GRIFFITH; FREY, 1992), bem como a ambiguidade dos termos utilizados (HUNT, 1992) ou a relacao dos mesmos com determinados codigos culturais historicamente variaveis (NIKOLAJEVA, 1995). Se, no passado, nao lhe era reconhecida