Before 18th Century
| Title | Author | Year published | References and Brief Introduction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Panchatantra | Vishnu Sharma | c. 800 BC | Ancient Indian inter-related collection of animal fables in verse and prose, in a frame story format. Similar stories are found in later works including Aesop's Fables and the Sindbad tales in Arabian Nights. |
| Aesop's Fables | Aesop | c. 600 BC | |
| Kathasaritsagara | Somadeva | 11th Century AD | Collection of Indian legends, fairy tales and folk tales as retold by a Saivite Brahmin named Somadeva. Generally believed to derive from Gunadhya's Brhat-katha, written in Paisachi dialect from the south of India. |
| Arabian Nights | unknown | before 8th century AD | |
| Orbis Pictus | John Amos Comenius | 1658 | Earliest picture book specifically for children. |
| A Token for Children. Being An Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of several Young Children | James Janeway | 1672 | One of the first books specifically written for children which shaped much eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writing for children. |
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