false 117997 3 In the zoo there are all kinds of animal families. But Tango's family is not like any of the others. 113589 26 4 2005 And Tango Makes Three total:596|5:337|4:172|3:69|2:10|1:8| 596 2608 900 185 4 22 false false Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 19:07:46 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 19:08:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 7 false false Mon Nov 03 13:04:07 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 18 09:47:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 5 false false Mon Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 07:41:18 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 07:50:49 -0700 2009
Encouraged by my friend Chandra's positive review, I decided to finally give this book a try. It's popularity and controversy made me tentative before--not due to the subject, but because I thought it might have been a platform book meant to push an agenda, r...more...]]> 5 6 false false Thu Oct 02 10:19:43 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 10:20:40 -0700 2008 2 3 false true Tue Sep 16 11:46:41 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 11:46:41 -0700 2008 Author: Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Illustrator: Henry Cole
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date: 2005

Genre: Non-fiction Picture Book
Grades: K-6
Banned/Challenged Book

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This is a very sweet story. It’s the true tale about 2 male penguins who are a pair and how they came to tend an egg and then raise Tango, a baby penguin. This happens at the Central Park Zoo in New York City, a...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon May 19 12:51:16 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 12:59:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 15:23:05 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 15:30:21 -0800 2009 Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bruce Bagem...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 16:33:49 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 16:34:53 -0700 2009 here.

Roy and Silo are two male penguins at the Central Park Zoo who became a couple. They bonded the same way a male and female penguin normally do. They made their own nesting area, and they tried to hatch egg-sized rocks the way other penguin couples around them were hatc...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 29 21:14:45 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 21:20:00 -0700 2009 This is truly ridiculous. People say that "hatred and racism are dead, a black man is president." This is very not true. ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 19:17:31 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 12:37:15 -0700 2009
K-3 At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until i...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 13 06:29:57 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 06:34:32 -0700 2008
I had to see what all the hoopla was about...what i found was a sweet, sweet book based on the true story of 2 male penguins who live in the Central Park Zoo and seem to be "a couple".

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This is such a touching little story! I cannot believe some libraries have banned it simple because the family is made up of two male penguins.

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