“Enemy Pie”

“Enemy Pie” is a book about friendship written by Derek Munson and illustrated by Tara Calahan King. The story is about a boy and his dad making a pie for the boy’s “enemy”. The story has a good message about how you shouldn’t be too quick to judge or dislike people when you don’t know them. The boy in the story disliked Jeremy- his enemy, because they weren’t too familiar with each other, hence his dad baking a pie that would get rid of enemies. In my opinion, I think that it’s a very good book because of the message that it sends. Sometimes people judge and make opinions about people they don’t know too well just by looking at what they do or what they look like, either in a positive or negative way. “Enemy Pie” is telling kids not to be too quick to decide that you dislike someone, especially if you’re not particularly close to them, which I think is a good thing for younger kids to learn because they could grow up to be rude or judgmental to people who are actually really nice. Like the boy in the story, people should try to get to know someone before they start disliking them, then maybe you could become friends! Unless you know for a fact that who you’re talking to is a bad person, I don’t think think you should hate them. “Enemy Pie” is a good book with a good message.

The Sweetest Fig

“The Sweetest Fig” is a book written by Chris Van Allsburg. The story was about a snobby dentist who helped an old lady, but instead of getting money, he got two magical figs. The book followed the dentist- Monsieur Bibot, as he found out about the figs abilities to make dreams a reality. “The Sweetest Fig” reminded me of Beauty and the Beast in a way, getting something magical from an old lady and being “cursed”. But, in this case Bibot was turned into his dog after it ate a magic fig and not turned into a beast. I think that this story is trying to tell people to not be greedy and consumed by desires because something bad may happen. Personally, I really liked the plot twist in the story because of how unexpected it was, I wouldn’t have guessed the the dog would eat the fig. I had a feeling that Bibot would try gain wealth from the fig, since that’s how his character was portrayed; a snobby, money-driven person. I wouldn’t say that this was my favourite book ever, but it was still good, in my opinion it was too easy to guess that the dentist would try to be greedy with the figs. With that said however, the story does tell us the consequences for being too greedy, it won’t be good.