Bibliographic Information: Richardson, J., & Parnell, P. (2011). And Tango Makes Three. New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Brief Annotation: Roy and Silo are two chinstrap penguins that live in the central park zoo. Usually a couple of penguins are both a girl and a boy, but they were a special couple with two boys. They did everything any other penguin couple would do, but they just were not able to hatch their own egg. The zookeeper Mr. Gramzay notices that the two penguins have been sitting on a rock trying to hatch it. Mr. Gramzay gives the penguin couple a fertile egg, the two penguins hatch the egg and name the baby Tango. She is the first penguin baby to have two dads at the central zoo.
Genre: Non-Fiction
Grade: K-4
Readers who will like this: Readers who like penguins or zoo animals; and children who like stories with different types of families.
Response/Rating (1-4): 4 out of 4. Great story of a different type of family.
One question you would ask before a read aloud: What people make up a family? Tell me about what kinds of families you know.
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