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Thousand and One Nights, as one of the most popular books worldwide, has its roots in India, Persia, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt(Marzolph et al., n.d.). One important source of the book is said to be the Iranian Hezār Afsān (A Thousand Tales) which is no…

This book is a translation of the Arabic Kalīla wa Dimna along with other Persian resources. The source for the Arabic translation was a lost translation into Pahlavi (an ancient Iranian language) of Panchatantra as well as parts of Mahabharata and…

The front cover of Mabel Cook Cole's "Philippine Folk Tales," from which Camilo Osias had taken some of the stories for his own readers

A scan of the Philippine folktale "The Legend of the First Banana" as translated into English by Camilo Osias, with illustrations by Fernando Amorsolo.

The front hardcover and interior copyright pages of Book 2 of the Philippine Public School. Reader, subtitled "In and Out of the Barrio"

The front hardcover of Book 5 of the Philippine Readers series, with embossed illustrative materials likely taken from interior illustrations by Fernando Amorsolo.

This Robinsonade about a young girl and her family marooned on an island after a shipwreck was written by Scottish author Ann Fraser Tytler, followed by two more stories featuring the same characters. The novel has heavy religious overtones.

The ubiquitous Aesop's Fables, attributed to the Greek slave and oral storyteller, Aesop, were highly recommended for children by British philosopher John Locke. This English edition by Samuel Croxall was advertised in Trinidad by Henry James Mills…

This adventure novel telling the story of a "strapping youth of twenty-one" who travels the East Indies and ultimately battles pirates from Malaysia was written by Scottish children's author R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne, better known for The…