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Anis ol-Odabā va al-Atfāl (A Friend to Men of Letters and Children)
The book is a translation of some English tales as well as Aesop’s Fables by Abd al-Hamid Ibn Abd ol-bāqi Thaqafi, known as Matin al-Saltaneh in 1901. The first sixteen chapters are advice to children about respecting their parents, righteousness,…
Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights)
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…
Ayār-e Dānesh (The Hallmark of Knowledge)
The book was a paraphrase of Anwār-e Sohailī, which is, in turn, a translation of Kalīla wa-Dimna. The translator, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak Nagori, was an Indian who had learned Persian as a foreign language(مهدي, ابوالقاسم, and اله, n.d.). The book…
Negār-e Dānesh (The Imprint of Knowledge)
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak Nagori made a selection of the tales in Ayār-e Dānesh, by the same writer, with still easier language to understand. The date of the original publication is not known, but it was later republished in Lucknow, India in 1902…
The Children's Friend
Originally published by Arnaud Berquin in French as L'Ami des Enfants, divided into twenty-four monthly installments, The Children's Friend contains stories about children's ordinary lives. The stories proved incredibly popular and the compilation…
Badule Khorgosh aar Pagrai Babu (Badule Rabbit and Pagrai Babu)
A recreation of Carroll's 'A Mad Tea Party' in Hemendra Kumar Ray's 'Ajob Deshe Amola,' a translation/adaptation of Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Note the turban on Pagrai-Babu, part of the indigenization…
Cover and copyright page of Philippine Readers Series, Book 5 (Revised)
The front hardcover of Book 5 of the Philippine Readers series, with embossed illustrative materials likely taken from interior illustrations by Fernando Amorsolo.
Akhlāq-e Mosavvar (Illustrated Morals)
This book is mainly a translation of Aesop’s Fables by Ebrāhim Ibn Ahmad, Sani ol-Saltaneh, in 1901 although the translator does not mention the source. He considers it an appropriate resource book for children for different reasons including its…
Andersen's Tales for Children
Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales include famous stories such as "The Little Mermaid," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The Snow Queen" (pictured). This translation by Alfred Wehnert and Caroline Peachey was, given its publication…
Paul and Virginia: An Indian Tale; Translated from the French
Originally published as Paul et Virginie, this romantic French children's novel tells the story of two young people growing up in the archipelago of the Indian Ocean in Île de France, known today as Mauritius. The island appears in the text as as a…