The Conference of the Birds Hardcover – Picture Book, 16 Sept. 2012

Bought as a present for a small child. His mother loves it and recognises it’s something that her child will enjoy, for different reasons, at different stages of growing up which is what I’d hoped.

I purchased this for my daughters after reading the complete one a while back. Has been very well presented and bind in quality

Great spiritual tale for young kids, illustrated really nicely.

Beautifully illustrated.

Can't praise this book enough!!!!

I didn’t enjoy the writing - I don’t think this book captures the essence of the original story. Perhaps that’s not possible for a short children’s book.A lot of the conversations with the birds from the beginning of the story are missed out, which is the best bit. It just doesn’t read like Sufism. All the charm and humour of the original are gone and is replaced with a boring, dogmatic story that sounds more like a religious cautionary tale than anything spiritual.For introducing the story to a child, I preferred the Peter Sis graphic novel (for both the text and illustrations).

A beautifully illustrated book with a story of many dimensions. In fact, it is so good, that a child I had the read the story to, used one of the lessons she had learnt from it to apply it to her life. I would recommend you to buy this book, and wish Amazon would allow for four-and-a-half stars! The reason I have given it four stars, is that I have read Attar's original work so many times in my youth, and this book falls just short of presenting a little bit more complexity that I managed to extract from the original when teaching children. Having said that, this edition is a beautiful work of Art in its own right!