And Tango Makes Three

And Tango Makes Three is a beautiful true story about a penguin family in New York City’s Central Park Zoo. Roy and Silo were never interested in the girl penguins. They only wanted to be with each other. They did everything the other couples did – they built a nest and took care of one another. But each time they looked in their nest, there was no egg. All of the other couples had eggs. Then one day the zoo keeper, Mr. Gramzay decided to give them an egg from another couple who had more than one.

Roy and Silo took turns taking care of the egg until one day it hatched. That was the day their daughter Tango was born. Today you can still see the three of them at the zoo – one happy gay penguin family.

This book is very sweet. It is also on the American Library Association’s most challenged books of 2006. The people who want the book removed from library shelves say it is anti-family. Hello, it is all about family! Who are these people?

Richardson, R. & Parnell, P.; Cole, H. (illustrator). (2005). And Tango Makes Three. New York: Simon & Schuster.