And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson

The reader is present in the illustrations rather than looking from afar. The illustrations of this book do not have borders, which allows the reader to view the character’s actions from within. From then on Silo and Roy raised Tango as being the first offspring to have two daddies, and they lived as one family. Both penguins looked after the egg and then it hatched a beautiful baby penguin named Tango. The penguin’s caretaker found an egg that needed caring, and brought it to Roy and Silo’s nest.

Roy and Silo were in love, but no matter how many nests they built they could not have an offspring. These two male penguins, Roy and Silo, did everything together, and wherever one went the other followed. Tags: Animals, Award Book, Diversity, Family, Friendship, Non-fiction, Picture Book, K-1, 2-3, Taylor KruegerĪnalysis: This book shows the story of two chinstrap penguins who live in a New York City zoo. The books were returned after a local newspaper questioned the ban.Author: Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell In 2007, the book was pulled from four elementary school libraries in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., after a few parents and Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James doubted the story’s truthfulness. The school’s superintendent, however, rejected the proposal and the book remained on the library shelf. A committee of school employees and a parent suggested that the book be moved to a separate area, requiring children to get parental permission before checking it out. It was also challenged at an elementary school library in Shiloh, Ill. Joseph and Savannah, Mo., after some parents complained it had homosexual undertones.

The controversy: In 2006, the book was moved from the children’s fiction section to children’s nonfiction at two Rolling Hills Consolidated Library’s branches, in St. Gramzay noticed the two penguins and thought to himself, ‘They must be in love.'” Instead Roy and Silo wound their necks around each other.

They didn’t spend much time with the girl penguins, and the girl penguins didn’t spend much time with them. One was named Roy, and the other was named Silo. About the book: The illustrated book is based on a true story of two male penguins who adopted an abandoned egg at New York City’s Central Park in the late 1990s.Įxcerpt: “Two penguins in the penguin house were a little bit different.

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson