![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The books were returned after a local newspaper questioned the ban. 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.'” Written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson with art by Henry Cole, And Tango Makes Three is an illustrated children’s book that tells the true story of Roy and Silo, two male penguins at New York’s Central Park Zoo that built a nest together, took turns brooding an egg, and raised Tango, the female chick that hatched. 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. ![]()
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