Research Guides: Children's literature : Fantasy

Finding a known author or title

This guide helps you find fantasy books for children and young adults. Keywords used to find fiction in our catalogue vary and this means that you will need to use a number of search strategies and resources to find fiction books in the theme of fantasy, depending on how much information you have to start with

To find a known title or author navigate to the Library catalogue and enter your terms in the large search box

For example, to find versions of Lewis Carroll's fantasies Alice's adventures in wonderland and Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there enter the author's name plus the term 'Alice' and click search. To see a comprehensive guide to doing research on Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' books see the guide Lewis Carroll and his 'Alice' books

Children's Literature and Childhood
Search across a wide range of primary sources related to the experience of childhood in the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). Included in the archive are books and periodicals for children, primers and other material related to education, pamphlets produced by child welfare groups, documents and photos related to children and crime, newspapers produced by youths, and much more.
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Australian fantasy

To find our holdings of Australian fantasy go to our Library catalogue

Type in the term fantasy and then use the options from Refine results. These will be retrieve fantasy stories for young adults and children but to identify Australian works of fantasy or science fiction, you will need to search eresources and print indexes