One Potato Review

Best friends, and best enemies, are as often a consequence of virtually random circumstances – of intersecting hobbies or parallel responsibilities, of classroom (or cubicle) proximity – as anything potentially defining. You meet someone, you decide that you like or you loathe them, but this is usually a matter of convenience. The Enemy Pie of this story doesn’t thankfully amount to the promise of best friends forever (and if it did, you could just as easily imagine the two boys in this story tormenting each other with those water balloons they enjoy lobbing at the neighbor girls, as soon as the cover is closed behind them), but at least it gives them a chance. Wide-eyed, circle-headed illustrations scarcely anticipate the thematic sophistication of this sly little fable, and the pie on the cover, though thoughtfully decorated with grubs and dirt and leafy greens, exists only in its deliverer’s imagination. Light, but potentially enlightening.