And Tango Makes Three

And Tango Makes Three is written by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell and is on the 100 most challenged books list.

 

 

 

This touching story is one of families and tolerence.  Two male penguins at the Central Park Zoo in New York came to live with one another and adopted an orphaned egg that eventually hatched into a female chick named Tango.  The two males, Roy and Silo, cared for the young chick and took care to raise her and teach her all of the ways of a penguin.  There is so much tolerence at work in this book, from the animals themselves to the spectators at the zoo, and it is a nice way to share the information which is based on two real penguins of the same name at that very zoo.  It made me think of how much the kids have changed since I was in school.  I think that now there are so many more cultural differences and changes that kids are exposed to that they are much more tolerant of differences among one another that I can ever remember as a child growing up.  How nice for younger students to see that there are differences in families even in the natural world, and yet, they are still a happy and thriving family. 

 

Richardson, J., Parnell, P., & Cole, H. (2005). And Tango makes three . New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.