Children's literature

A guide to children's literature including resources at the State Library and elsewhere

Finding a known author or title

This guide helps you find science fiction books for children and young adults and includes eresources, journals, books and children's book awards. 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

To explore the breadth of the Library's holdings in this genre, enter any of the following 'science fiction', 'sci-fi' or 'science-fiction' plus permutations of the descriptors child, children or children's

If you have the author or title, simply enter those details into the Search box on our catalogue

Australian science fiction

To find our holdings of Australian science fiction go to our Library catalogue

Type in the phrase science fiction and then use the options from the boxes below the 'Search' box to narrow your search. Add further options from the Refine results list. Note the Active filters in this search

Catalogue search

To identify Australian works of science fiction, you will need to search eresources and print indexes

Some Australian eresources and databases include

  • Aurealis is the Australian online magazine for fantasy, science fiction and horror and includes book reviews and awards
  • Eidonon net: Australian science fiction online is a website for the magazine of the same name which ran from 1995 to 2005
  • Reading Time is an Australian magazine that provides reviews and award lists
  • This is a link to the Library's sound recording of Catherine Jinks work of science fiction Eye to eye (1997)

Print resources

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman

 

Children's Book Awards

Overseas science fiction

Eresources and databases

  • Analog science fiction & fact is a magazine that contains short science fiction stories, book reviews, biographies of personalities in science and trends in science and society
  • Horn book magazine includes reviews and awards in science fiction
  • Science fiction studies magazine that looks at whole field of science fiction, including children's and Australian science fiction

Print indexes

Science Fiction Critiques

Australian science fiction

Gillian Rubenstein's Space demons (1986), Skymaze (1989) and Beyond the labyrinth (1988)

Gillian Rubinstein novels

 Ivan Southall's Simon Black in space (1952) and Simon Black and the spacemen (1955)

Ivan Southall novels

The web of time (1980) by Lee Harding

>Web of Time by Lee Harding

Cinder (2012) by Melissa Meyer

Cinder Marissa Meyer

Split infinity (2016) by Thalia Kalkipsakis

Split Inifinity by Thalia Kalkipsakis