Demi writes a children's book of Muhammad and it is wonderful. She gets around the fact that human images are not acceptable in Islam by having a gold figure pose as Muhammad. The book covers all of Muhammad's life, especially his religious conversion. I highly recommend this book. It is glorious to look at and wonderful to read.

Firstly, I hope nobody is reading the School Library Journal's shockingly bigoted and unprofessional "review of this book". I am writing directly to the SLJ to let them know how I feel about the "review" above which is not a review at all but a horribly ignorant and bigoted diatribe against Islam, rather than an actual review of this book. It appears that the author of the review simply didn't like the book because she has a lot of preconceived prejudices against Islam and Muslims and she is just upset that this book doesn't reflect her ideas. Very disappointing and unprofessional coming from a such a widely-regarded publication.

This book is an outstanding summary of the life of the Prophet Muhammad which is beautiful and informative for both children and adults. As a Muslim I find it deeply respectful and accurate. One minor issue for Muslims is that, while care is taken to obscure the face of the Prophet Muhammad as is the custom, there are faces on the picture that shows other Prophets (such as Moses and Jesus) and it appears that the author was not aware that the prohibition on depicting the faces is for all Prophets not just for Muhammad. Some Muslims I know have simply used gold-toned pens to cover them.

I use this book both for my children and for interfaith dialogue groups due to its brevity, accesibility, and sheer beauty.

This book is a classic and an absolutely beautiful book to own whether you have children or not. The quality of the artwork, gilded pages, style of writing, is excellent. I have personally purchased 3 additional copies that I gave as presents to friends who were so impressed as well. A bargain price for a great quality book!