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And I think the positive focus on loving families in it is one of the things that makes my son like it so much: that fundamentally it's a story of a baby (a baby penguin, in this case) coming into a family that loves her and wants her so much they're willing to go to exceptional lengths in order for her to be born. Carol depicts the relationship of the eponymous heroine, a bored suburban housewife, and Therese Belivet, a young woman living in Manhattan.
(PreSchool through Grade 3) -- Library Review
Examples of Challenges to And Tango Makes Three
2006
- Parents of students at Shiloh Elementary School in Shiloh, Illinois requested in November 2006 that the book be placed in a restricted section of the library and for the school to require parental permission prior to checking the book out.
There's really nothing intrinsically political about it at all. Older readers will most appreciate the...larger theme of tolerance at work in this touching tale." ― Publishers Weekly, starred review
*"This joyful story about the meaning of family is a must for any library." ― School Library Journal, starred review
*"In this true, straightforwardly (so to speak) delivered tale, two male chinstrap penguins at New York City's Central Park Zoo bond, build a nest and--thanks to a helping hand from an observant zookeeper--hatch and raise a penguin chick...Readers may find its theme of acecptance even more convincing for being delivered in such a matter of fact, non-preachy way." ― Kirkus Reviews, starred review
A charming and adorable story that proves love isn't confined by a set of rules of what's right or wrong.A former elementary school teacher, he now writes and paints full time.
Excerpt. This is a transformative novel about transformation.
And Tango Makes Three
The school district's lawyer argued that such a decision, if challenged, would likely not hold up in court. Simple as that. And so even a book as sweet and simple as this, where the underlying message is really just that everyone wants the same things in life - love and family - gets challenged as being, ironically, "anti-family", even though it's really about the most pro-family book there is.
He is also the illustrator of With a Little Help from My Friends by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. I think reading that can make any child feel more loved, by proxy. Funny, tender, and true, the story of Tango will delight young readers and open their minds." -- John Lithgow
*"Cole's pictures complement the perfectly cadenced text...Those who share this with children will find themselves returning to it again and again...for the two irresistible birds at its center and for the celebration of patient, loving fathers who 'knew just what to do.'" ― Booklist, starred review
*"[A] hearwarming tale.
The well-designed pages perfectly marry words and pictures, allowing readers to savor each illustration. Roy and Silo, two male penguins, are "a little bit different." They cuddle and share a nest like the other penguin couples, and when all the others start hatching eggs, they want to be parents, too. © Reprinted by permission. However, those who share this with children will find themselves returning to it again and again--not for the entree it might offer to matters of human sexuality, but for the two irresistible birds at its center and for the celebration of patient, loving fathers who "knew just what to do." Jennifer Mattson
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Thus penguin chick Tango, hatched from a fertilized egg given to the pining, bewildered pair, came to be "the only penguin in the Central Park Zoo with two daddies." As told by Richardson and Parnell (a psychiatrist and playwright), this true story remains firmly within the bounds of the zoo's polar environment, as do Cole's expressive but still realistic watercolors (a far cry from his effete caricatures in Harvey Fierstein's The Sissy Duckling, 2002).
They are about being utterly and uniquely yourself.
This following list of must-read LGBTQ+ fiction and non-fiction doesn’t seek to provide a detailed account of the queer canon, but rather to give you a starting point, or an ‘I need to read that again’ moment, or simply to remind you that there are lots of other people in this world who felt the same strange kick in the gut when they read Giovanni’s Room, or Genet, or Hollinghurst for the first time, or who recognised the oddly liberating sorrow of Jeanette Winterson’s coming-out-gone-wrong in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, or enjoyed the comforting company of community in the inhabitants of Armistead Maupin’s San Francisco.