title: Anemone Is Not the Enemy
text: # Anemone Is Not the Enemy
  
  Anemone Is Not the Enemy is a 2020 children's picture book by Anna McGregor. It is about a lonely anemone who lives in a tide pool and cannot make friends as she keeps stinging everyone, but eventually does so with a clown fish.
  
  ## Publication history
  
  * 2021, USA, Scribe ISBN 9781950354511
  * 2020, Australia, Scribble ISBN 9781922310118
  
  ## Reception
  
  A reviewer for Reading Time called it a "fun and funny picture book", and recommended it "for young readers especially those interested in the natural world.". Kirkus Reviews found that it "Suggests a human lesson from a fish fact made familiar by a popular children’s film."
  
  Anemone Is Not the Enemy has also been reviewed by The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Books+Publishing, and Publishers Weekly.
  
  It is a 2021 CBCA Book of the Year Early Childhood notable book, and a 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards Small publisher Children's Book of the Year longlisted book.
  
  