When I asked the kids in my class what they would put in an enemy pie they quickly came up with ideas. Worms, snails, dirt, legos, and other silly items.
This week’s book for book club was, Enemy Pie : (Reading Rainbow Book, Children’s Book about Kindness, Kids Books about Learning)
Finding creative ways to empower children to find solutions to problems is so important. As parents and teachers, it is easy to step in and help. When a child can recognize they can do it on their own what a powerful feeling.
In our story, the character is upset because a new child has moved into the neighborhood and has befriended his best friend. He watches the other two friends play and feels left out.
Jealousy is a new feeling for many children and becomes mistaken for sadness and anger. New emotions are not easy to understand. When he confronts his Dad, they plan to make an enemy pie to get even.
While dad is making the pie, the son has gone to the enemy’s house. This is part of dad’s plan. After spending the day with the boy he realizes he really likes him.
When it is time to eat the enemy pie the boy yells for him to stop. The pie was delicious.
The father did not solve the problem for the son, he gave him an opportunity to discover a new friendship. When we step in we don’t give our children the chance to see what they can do on their own. Giving them tools to try and solve problems builds self-confidence.
We can lead our children toward the direction we hope they follow. Sometimes they will get there other times they may not.
In our journals, we drew pictures of yummy enemy pies.
If we fill our enemy pie with love, friendship, and strength, our children can change the world.
This book is wonderful for all ages and is one that you can read over and over again.
As an Amazon Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
20 Responses
I love this. I’m going to buy my sister this book🥰
This will be an awesome gift for your sister! Thank you for your reply!
I love this book! I always read it to my kindergarten students at the beginning of the year and again mid way through the year. Such a classic!
Such a perfect book for kindergarten kids! Thank you for replying to my post
This is so lovely! We definitely can empower children so they grow into independent, kind individuals. What a lovely story. Well done!
Thank you for your kind words
I love book recommendations. We have started a book collection for my daughter and she is loving story time. I will krista my eyes open for this one. It looks like a fabulous book!
I am so happy to hear about your collection of books. I started collecting for my son and now I collected children’s books for me. The lessons reach not only children but adults also, have fun!
A good story! Reminds parents to acknowledge kids’ feelinhg and at the same time teaches kids about friendship. I love the follow-activity shared that we can do after reading the book!
Thank you. The pictures of the kids pies were so funny and I loved listening to all the stories as to why they chose the pie they made 🙂
Very interesting topic 🙂 I’ll definitely have one of your book 🙂
Giving our children the opportunity to learn instead of stepping in and doing it for them can be so hard, but it is so worth it. Thank you for the reminder Miss Suzanne. As always, miss you ❤️
This is a great book for my son’s age range. Social skills are key!
Thank you, a tasty way to learn about friendship 🙂
Oh what a sweet story! I love this for my daughter, but also the kiddos I work with! I’m always looking for stories to help them with social skills.
Thank you. My class always asks to read the pie book over and over again 🙂
What a sweet book! I love finding books that teach my little one a great lesson in life. Thank you for the recommendation!
Thank you! I also love finding special books that we can read over and over again and always learn something new.
This sounds like a great book to check out! I think my boys would enjoy it and I love the lesson behind it. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for your comment, it is a very fun book to read!