Editing Children's fantasy (section)

== Children's fantasy books and series ==
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The protagonists are usually children or teens who have unique abilities, gifts, possessions or even allies that allow them to face powerful adversaries. [[Harry Potter (character)|Harry Potter]] is a powerful young wizard, one of the children of ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' series is an immature Old One with magical abilities, and in the ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' series the children have magical items and animal allies.  The plot frequently incorporates a ''[[bildungsroman]]''. 

In the earlier part of the 20th century, [[C. S. Lewis]] noted that fantasy was more accepted in juvenile literature, and therefore a writer interested in fantasy often wrote in it to find an audience.{{sfn|Lewis|1975|p=41}}

=== Forerunners ===
* [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]]: ''[[The Nutcracker and the Mouse King]]''
* [[Charles Kingsley]]: ''[[The Water-Babies]]''
* [[George MacDonald]]: ''[[The Princess and the Goblin]], [[The Light Princess]], [[At the Back of the North Wind]]''
* [[Lewis Carroll]]: ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'', ''[[Through the Looking-glass]]''
* [[Carlo Collodi]]: ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio]]''
* [[Kenneth Grahame]]: ''[[The Reluctant Dragon (short story)|The Reluctant Dragon]]''

=== 1900 to 1945 ===
* [[L. Frank Baum]]: ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' and its many sequels
* [[Beatrix Potter]]: ''[[The Tale of Peter Rabbit]]'' and rest of ''The 23 Tales''
* [[Kenneth Grahame]]: ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]''
* [[J.M. Barrie]]: ''[[Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up]]''
* [[E. Nesbit]]: ''[[Five Children and It]]'', ''[[The Phoenix and the Carpet]]'', ''[[The Story of the Amulet]]'', ''[[The Enchanted Castle]]'', ''[[The Magic City (novel)|The Magic City]]''
* [[Rudyard Kipling]]: ''[[Puck of Pook's Hill]]'' and ''[[Rewards and Fairies]]''
* [[Selma Lagerlöf]]: ''[[The Wonderful Adventures of Nils]]''
* [[A. A. Milne]]: ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh (book)|Winnie-the-Pooh]]'', ''[[The House at Pooh Corner]]''
* [[Zofia Kossak-Szczucka]]: ''[[The Troubles of a Gnome]]''
* [[Erich Kästner]]: ''[[The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas]]''
* [[P. L. Travers]]: ''[[Mary Poppins (book series)|Mary Poppins]]'' series
* [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]: ''[[The Hobbit]]''
* [[Enid Blyton]]: ''[[The Faraway Tree]]'' series
* [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]: ''[[The Little Prince]]''
* [[Mary Norton (author)|Mary Norton]]: ''[[The Magic Bed Knob]]'', ''[[Bonfires and Broomsticks]]''

=== Post-War and 1950s ===
* [[Jan Brzechwa]]: ''[[Pan Kleks]]'' trilogy
* [[C. S. Lewis]]: ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''
* [[Astrid Lindgren]]: ''[[Pippi Longstocking]]'' series, ''[[Mio, My Son]]'', ''[[Karlsson-on-the-Roof]]'' series
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]: the [[Heinlein juveniles]], a set of 12 books that includes ''[[Starship Troopers]]''
* [[T. H. White]], ''[[The Sword in the Stone (novel)|The Sword in the Stone]]'' and ''[[Mistress Masham's Repose]]''
* [[Tove Jansson]]: the ''[[Moomin]]'' series
* [[Mary Norton (author)|Mary Norton]]: ''[[The Borrowers]]'' series

=== Late 20th Century ===
* [[Maurice Sendak]]: ''[[Where the Wild Things Are]]''
* [[Joan Aiken]]: ''[[The Wolves of Willoughby Chase|Wolves Chronicles]]''
* [[Astrid Lindgren]]: ''[[Ronia, the Robber's Daughter]]'', ''[[The Brothers Lionheart]]''
* [[Michael Ende]]: ''[[Momo (novel)|Momo]]'', ''[[The Neverending Story]]''
* [[Susan Cooper]]: ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]''
* [[Roald Dahl]]: ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'', ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]'', ''[[Matilda (novel)|Matilda]]'', ''[[The BFG]]'' and others
* [[Diana Wynne Jones]]: ''[[The Lives of Christopher Chant]]'', ''[[Charmed Life (novel)|Charmed Life]]''
* [[Alan Garner]]: ''[[The Weirdstone of Brisingamen]]'', ''[[The Owl Service]]''
* [[Andre Norton]]: the ''[[Witch World]]'' series
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]: ''[[A Wizard of Earthsea]]'' and its sequels
* [[Jill Murphy]]: ''[[The Worst Witch]]'' series
* [[Brian Jacques]]: the ''[[Redwall]]'' series
* [[Anne McCaffrey]]: the ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]'' Harper Hall trilogy
* [[Madeleine L'Engle]]: the ''[[Time Quartet]]''
* [[Lloyd Alexander]]: ''[[The Chronicles of Prydain]]''
* [[Chris Van Allsburg]]: ''[[The Garden of Abdul Gasazi]]'', ''[[Jumanji (picture book)|Jumanji]]'' and ''[[Zathura]]'', ''[[The Polar Express]]''
* [[Dorota Terakowska]]: ''Lustro pana Grymsa'' (''The Mirror of mister Gryms''), ''Babci Brygidy szalona podróż po Krakowie'' (''Grandma Brygida’s Mad Journey through Cracow''), ''Władca Lewawu'' (''The Ruler of Lewaw''), ''Córka czarownic'' (''Witches' Daughter''), ''W krainie Kota'' (''In The Land of the Cat''), ''Samotność Bogów'' (''The Loneliness of the Gods''), ''Tam gdzie spadają anioły'' (''Where the Angels Fall'')
* [[Norton Juster]]: ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]''
* [[Shannon Messenger]]: "[[Keeper of the Lost Cities]]"

=== More recent titles and series ===
* [[James Gurney]]: ''[[Dinotopia]]'' series
* [[Philip Pullman]]: ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', ''[[Clockwork (novel)|Clockwork]]'' and ''[[The Firework-Maker's Daughter]]''
* [[J. K. Rowling]]: ''[[Harry Potter]]''
* [[Holly Black]] and [[Tony DiTerlizzi]]: ''[[The Spiderwick Chronicles]]''
* [[Cornelia Funke]]: ''[[The Thief Lord]]'', [[Inkheart series|''Inkheart'' series]], ''[[Dragon Rider (novel)|Dragon Rider]]'' 
* [[Mary Pope Osborne]]: The ''[[Magic Tree House]]'' series
* [[Tamora Pierce]]: ''[[The Song of the Lioness]]'', ''[[Circle of Magic]]'', and sequels
*[[Jonathan Stroud]]: ''[[Bartimaeus Sequence]]'' and ''[[Lockwood & Co.]]''
* [[Rick Riordan]]: ''[[Camp Half-Blood Chronicles]]'', ''[[The Kane Chronicles]]'', and ''[[Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard]]''
* [[Christopher Paolini]]: ''[[Eragon]]''
* [[Angie Sage]]: ''[[Septimus Heap]]''
* [[Erin Hunter]]: ''[[Warriors (novel series)|Warriors]]'', ''[[Seekers (novel series)|Seekers]]'', and ''[[Survivors by Erin Hunter|Survivors]]'' series
*[[Brandon Mull]]: ''[[Fablehaven (novel)|Fablehaven]], [[Beyonders: A World Without Heroes|Beyonders]]'', and [[Five Kingdoms: Sky Raiders|''Five Kingdoms'']] series
* [[Jennifer A. Nielsen]]: ''[[Ascendance Trilogy|The False Prince]]'' trilogy
* [[Chris Colfer]]: ''[[The Land of Stories]]''
* [[Tui T. Sutherland]]: ''[[Wings of Fire (novel series)|Wings of Fire]]'' series
*[[Shannon Hale]]: [[The Goose Girl (novel)|''The Goose Girl'']] and sequels, ''[[Princess Academy]]''