And Tango Makes Three (Classic Board Books) Board book – Picture Book, June 2, 2015

This is a wonderful book and it’s an entertaining story. It does give you something to use For children’s teachable moments But beyond that the story is lovely and who doesn’t like penguins? I definitely recommend this one.

Funny - as I finished reading this beautiful book for the first time, one of my old favorite songs (by Hal David/Burt Bacharach) as a child growing up in the 60's started playing in my head...What the world needs now is love sweet love,It's the only thing that there's just too little of.What the world needs now is love sweet love,No not just for some but for everyone!The simplicity of the words husband and husband team Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell have used to tell the true story of a couple of male chinstrap penguins (Roy and Silo) at New York's Central Park Zoo, who had paired off as a couple and were given an extra fertilized egg to hatch on their way to becoming a family unlike any of the zoo's other animal families (but a family nonetheless!), makes this book a perfect way to begin naturally introducing the concepts of acceptance and inclusion to youngsters. The soft illustrations by Henry Cole are such a nice complement to the story - I'm really looking forward to sharing this special book with our four grandchildren, who will most certainly be meeting many families of varying composition during their lifetimes! The way baby Tango and his dads are welcomed by the children coming to see them after his birth is a good "footprint in the sand" to leave on a child's growing sense of the world around them.I'm a dozen years late in my personal discovery of the book, so I missed the brouhaha surrounding its 2005 publication, having appeared on the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom's "Top Ten Most Challenged Book List" from 2006-2010, reappearing in 2012, and - sadly - again as late as 2014. This is such a gentle book, and to imagine literature that celebrates the love and devotion of parents would ever appear on such a list is disheartening. This is a sweet book that talks of the desire to share a home and a family (I'll type the text in the comment section below for parents/grandparents to read for themselves if they're on the fence about the book.) The younger of my two sons is gay, has been in a committed and happy relationship with his partner for seven years, and should they eventually marry and decide to begin a family, it would be so painful to the heart of this mother to see his family shunned or ridiculed. I hope the authors have not experienced it since the birth of their own daughter, little Gemma, whom I suppose is about 8 years old now and feeling very loved and secure.Children are drawn to books about animals, there aren't too many animals cuter or funnier than penguins, and if you're a parent or grandparent who's searching for ways to begin opening your child's mind to the concept of the different types of families they'll encounter (or may be a part of!) along life's journey, as I myself have been, I think "And Tango Makes Three" is a nice place to start.

I collect banned and/or challenged books. This was my Christmas present to myself. Having originally become aware of this little trio when they were a duo on an episode of Will & Grace, I thought it was wonderful that so many people were not bothered with two male penguins finding love and were willing to fight for them so they wouldn't be separated. What a beautiful story to tell anyone about the power of love and family.

What is not to love!!! This book is amazing and sweet! Based on a true story and beautiful illustrations! If I could, I would buy it for all the kids and put them in those little free libraries!

I loved the honesty of the way the authors depicted the two male parents as a couple in love, and both in love with their baby, together doing what good, loving parents do for their offspring—no artifice there, no explanations. All the reader/listener has to do is appreciate and enjoy the devoted way they nurture the egg and post the egg hatching how they train their baby to become a happy, well adjusted, responsible member of the community (the village, so to speak of). The underlying message is about acceptance of others as they are. It’s too bad that the Christian haters have complained and even banned this multi award winning book in the name of Jesus and the bible. And I find it all baffling because, if true that Christ preached acceptance and a love of one another, why then is there so much hatred and meanness being committed in our country upon those that are different but do no harm by those who purport to follow him?

I recently bought a shirt that says "I'm With The Banned" and has 17 book titles on it. I've read 9 of them. So now I'm working through the rest. I went ahead and knocked this one out because it took me literally 5 minutes.It is a children's book about two male Penguins named Roy and Silo who live at the Central Park Zoo and are in love. They do everything like the other penguin couples. But they couldn't make an egg. Another couple had an extra egg that they couldn't take care of so the zookeeper gave that egg to Roy and Silo. They cared for the egg and became parents to Tango and the family of three lived happily ever after.It is absurd to me that this book is banned. Gay couples exist and can be just as loving as straight ones. This book is sweet and I love that it promotes that all kinds of loving families can exist. If I had a child, I would read it to them at bedtime.

Bought 2 for grandkids, one for this Granny's house after learning this book was "banned" or attempted to be banned from schools and libraries. It's a beautiful story. Why would people want to ban a book aimed at the promotion of inclusion for all people? God made us all, Good doesn't make mistakes. Love is love.

I love the book And Tango Makes Three so much. Even It is banned in some states, It is important for children to learn about different Family structures And the love among families. Highly recommend! By the way, the CD is read by the author. But It is hard to find a CD reader.

Buy it, read it to your kids & yourself, then donate it to a local school. Good art, based on true events and real biology.

Brought for use in a school. It’s great for the children to be able to read about all kinds of families!

Beautiful book…. A must read for all

Nos ha encantado para poder explicar el método de adopción de embriones con nuestro bebé

Good book with a great story based on reality. Book came nicely packed in a good condition.Stories like this will definitely help parents shape up their children in better human beings who accept others and the world as it is.