You can search for physical books, e-books and book chapters in LibrarySearch. Login and search in it using search words (keywords) that describe your topic, then refine your results to 'Books' and 'Book chapters' under Resource Type. If you only want online resources (e.g. e-books and online book chapters), further limit your results to 'Online' under Show Only.

• Combine your keywords with AND to find all the search words.
• Use OR to find any of the words (e.g. synonyms, abbreviations vs full names, related words).
• Find "exact phrases" with quotation marks.
• Add an asterisk * to part of a word to find different endings and plurals.

Further information: Tips for using LibrarySearch

An example search: 

"Children's stories" AND Girls
"Children's stories" AND Boys

To find LGBTIQ+ resources, useful search terms include:

"Gay teenagers" OR "Gay youth" OR "Gender identity" OR "Lesbian teenagers" OR "LGBT*" OR "Sexual orientation" OR "Same-sex marriage" OR "Transgender people"

To find resources about Indigenous Australians, you could search for:

"Aboriginal Australians" OR "Indigenous children -- Australia" OR "Torres Strait Islanders"

AND

"Children's literature" OR "Children's stories" OR "Juvenile fiction" OR "Picture books" OR Readers

Readers and kits

Readers:

Readers are short, easy-to-read books, which are typically leveled in terms of reading difficulty. They can be found in the Bundoora Children's Collection with a call number of J 428.6 and J 428.64. To locate these items, use "primary readers" as a search term.

Educational toys and kits:

These toys and kits are available to take out on placement or to use in your research and assignments.To locate these items in LibrarySearch, use search terms such as "educational toys", "hand puppets" and "wooden toys".

Like browsing the shelves?

Try these call numbers:

• 011.62: Children’s Literature -- Bibliography
• 028.5: Literature -- Bibliography
• 372.4: Reading -- Study and teaching
• 372.64: Children’s Literature -- Study and teaching
• 428.4: Literacy -- Study and teaching
• 741.642 and 808.068: Picture books - writing and illustrating
• 809.89 - 809.899282: Children's literature

Note: Books with call numbers beginning with J are located in the Bundoora Children's Collection.

• JP (Junior Picture books)
• JF (Junior Fiction)
• J (Non-fiction)

The Bundoora Library has a curated Children's Literature Collection located on Level 3.

Education students undertaking teacher education degrees in early childhood, primary and secondary education can use the resources within this collection for assignment and research purposes, and to maintain a broad contemporary working knowledge of Children's and Young Adult literature.

Try these keywords and subject headings to search for relevant books: