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 
2020, Australia, Scribble

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. References

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Library holdings of Anemone Is Not the Enemy

Australian picture books
2020 children's books
Scribe (publisher) books
Children's books about animals