I absolutely love this book! I hope I get to read it to my grandchildren. ( )

This is a banned book. Censored for unsuited for age group, LGBTQ content and religious content

A wonderful, true story about three penguins at the Central Park zoo. Two male penguins raise Tango as a hatchling and at the time of the of the 10th anniversary book were still at the Central Park Zoo. ( )

This story is about two male penguins at the Central Park Zoo that want a family, when the zoo brings in a baby penguin for them. This is a great book about nontraditional families.
2-5
Social Moral
Fort Steilacoom ECE shelves

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. Seeing that the penguins dubbed Roy and Silo “did everything together. They bowed to each other. And walked together. They sang to each other. And swam together,” their keeper, Mr. Gramzay, thinks, “They must be in love.” And so, when Roy and Silo copy the other penguin couples and build a nest of stones, it’s Gramzay who brings a neighboring couple’s second egg for them to tend, then names the resulting hatchling “Tango.” Cole gives the proud parents and their surrogate offspring small smiles, but otherwise depicts figures and setting with tidy, appealing accuracy. Unlike Harvey Fierstein’s groundbreaking The Sissy Duckling (2002), also illustrated by Cole, this doesn’t carry its agenda on its shoulder; readers may find its theme of acceptance even more convincing for being delivered in such a matter of fact, non-preachy way. (afterword) (Picture book/nonfiction. 5-9)

-Kirkus Review

"The gay penguin book" - this is just an adorable story about two male penguins trying to raise an orphaned egg. ( )