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List of Reward Books given to Children at Moravian School in St. Croix
This list of books alongside children's names appears as archival ephemera, alongside records of an exam given at the school. Most of the books can be identified from Religious Tract Society publications.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
An adaptation of One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern Folk Tales, commonly known in English as Arabian Nights, this version by George Fyler Townsend draws from previous French and English translations. Given its publication…
Tom Brown's School Days
Also known as Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby, this classic children's book popularized the school story genre, directly inspiring later books including J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter. The book's circulation in the Caribbean is interesting, given that…
Cover and copyright page of Philippine Public School Readers Book 2
The front hardcover and interior copyright pages of Book 2 of the Philippine Public School. Reader, subtitled "In and Out of the Barrio"
Under the Waves: Or, Diving in Deep Waters: A Tale
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…
Buro Angla cover
The cover art for the 1953 edition of Abanindranath Tagore's Buro Angla, an adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils.
Hekāyāt-e Delpasand (Pleasant Tales)
Written by Mohammad Mehdi Vāsef Rezājouei in 1847, the book is based on Aesop’s Fables. The writer attributes the stories to King Solomon but mentions the fact that it was translated from Greek into French and other European languages and used as an…
Akhlāgh-e Asāsi (Basic Morals)
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…
Bluher va Budhasef (Bluher and Budhasef)
This book, deemed to have stemmed from Indian oral tradition, tells the story of Siddhartha who abandoned the palace of his father under the influence of his mentor, Bluher. One of the lithographed editions was used to supply part of the Elementary…