Enemy Pie (Reading Rainbow book)

Building friendships by getting to know people is the theme of this book. Great for classrooms at beginning of the year. Would also make a great mentor book for primary writing activities on author's purpose and style.

Enemy Pie is a beautiful lesson that teaches us to get to know those people that we might feel are enemies. When we spend time with people, we begin to see their better qualities. It is easy to be an enemy or stand in judgement of those we do not know. Great story and illustrations! Adults and children can learn a lot from this book!

Incredible book with a great lesson. Not only teaches good stuff but is fun to read. Also, it doesn't preach but helps the child to learn the lesson or come to the realization on their own. Great gift for little ones.

This is a really cute book with a great message. I got it for my 6 year old that was struggling with having a bully in his class. This book made him laugh and I eventually even brought it to the school and read it to the class- all the kids loved it.

Every school year I get excited to read this book to the new 4th graders. Such a great story about learning to give people a chance and to not be so quick to judge and dislike someone. This book opens up a lot opportunities for class discussions and to really understand the characters and ourselves.

Every school year I get excited to read this book to the new 4th graders. Such a great story about learning to give people a chance and to not be so quick to judge and dislike someone. This book opens up a lot opportunities for class discussions and to really understand the characters and ourselves.

A story of a brilliant father who offers a solution to his sons problem in the realistic fiction picture book, Enemy Pie by Derek Munson. It seems as though, a young boy is having a difficult time getting along with another boy at school. The boy shares his feelings about this bully with his father and he provides him the recipe for Enemy Pie. He shares no ingredients to what is in the pie; however, the boy believes that it will be something horrible and disgusting that his nemesis will get what he deserves when he takes his first bite. Instead, the father gives him simple directions that must be followed very careful in order for the endeavor to be completed successfully.

This is a great read aloud to prepare students for times where they are in need of a solution to their bully problem. In addition, it would be a great mentor text to introduce students to seek out problems and solutions in the stories they read; as well as a way for them to write about their own problems and whip up a creative solution.

Life was good, until Jeremy Ross moved into the neighborhood and became enemy number one. Fortunately for this young boy, his dad knows just how to handle enemies...an old secret recipe, Enemy Pie. And while dad does the cooking, our young man must do his part, the hardest part. He has to spend the entire day, being nice and playing with Jeremy. First they rode bikes and bounced on the trampoline. Next they threw water balloons at girls and played some basketball. And towards the end of the day, they went up in the treehouse and played checkers and cards. Finally, dad called and said it was time for pie. What was a guy going to do? He liked Jeremy. They had become friends and were going to play again tomorrow. He definitely didn't want Jeremy eating any Enemy Pie..... Derek Munson has written a charming, amusing story with a subtle lesson that will not be lost on youngsters. His text and humorous dialogue are true to life and kids will really be able to identify with his characters. Tara Calahan King's wonderful, expressive artwork really compliments the story and together they send the important message that the best way to get rid of your enemies, is to make them your friends. Perfect for children 4-8, Enemy Pie is a winner.

I am an elementary school counselor and read this every year. Here's why I continue to read it to students......

This one continues to be a crowd pleaser with the students. The first few years I read Enemy Pie I kept it light and fluffy and danced around the topic of being a good friend. I can finally say after years of reading it, I've now mastered the real message in the book - you can attract more bees with honey than vinegar. Sometimes I wonder what happened to just good ol' fashioned kindness. I ask the kids during the story to look around at one another and ask themselves - Who would I want to serve a slice of enemy pie to? Who do I need to get to know better? Because maybe if I got to know them better they may actually turn out to be friend. And of course I love stories using adults as positive role models. This book has a good principal to it.

As an elementary principal, I stress character education. I am always searching for children's books with strong messages that will stick with my students long after I read to them. ENEMY PIE is that kind of book. A young boy named Jermemy Ross is having a great summer playing baseball and enjoying his treehouse until he sees his number one enemy jumping on a trampoline. His dad convinces him the best way to get back at his enemies is to serve them enemey pie. Jermemy imagines all the nasty ingredients like earthworms that likely are in enemy pie and by the end of the story he discovers what really makes enemy pie so powerful. Needless to say, Jeremy takes care of his enemy and learns an important life lesson in the process. It's certainly a lesson you will want to pass on to your children and no doube one worth reviewing in your own life.

This is excellent and I highly recommend it. I wondered if my five-year-old might be a little young for it, but the story engaged him right from the start. All the way through he kept suggesting things that each turned out to be exactly what the protagonist was thinking. It obviously speaks directly to children, in a way that a lot of children's books don't.