Adopting an Egg

And tango makes three, 2005

P. Parnell adn J. Richardson
Illustration: H. Cole.
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Age: 4-8

A children's book about an orphaned penguin egg given to two males in the Central Park Zoo who adopt the egg and raise the baby as their own.

The book is based on the true story of Roy and Silo, two male Chinstrap Penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo. The book follows the six years of their life where they formed a couple and were given an egg to raise.

The book has won many awards but also been at the center of numerous censorship and culture war debates on same-sex marriage, adoption and homosexuality in animals. The ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom of reports that And Tango Makes Three was the most challenged book of 2006 to 2009 (wiki).

Reasons are : anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group.

"We wrote the book to help parents teach children about same-sex parent families. It's no more an argument in favor of human gay relationships than it is a call for children to swallow their fish whole or sleep on rocks."
Justin Richardson, New York Times (2005).

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