And Tango Makes Three

All different kinds of families visit the animals in the Central Park Zoo. This true story, written by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell and illustrated by Henry Cole, tells the tale of a different kind of animal family, which formed at the zoo.

When the penguins began pairing off, one pair consisted of two males, Roy and Silo. They did everything together: sang and swam and walked. They even made themselves a home--a stone nest.

One day, Roy and Silo noticed that the other penguin couples were raising baby penguins from eggs the mother penguins laid. So Roy and Silo tried to hatch something that looked like an egg, but it didn't hatch--even though they sat and sat and sat on it-- because it was a rock. But one day, the penguin keeper found an egg that needed a home. He put it in Roy and Silo's nest. Roy and Silo kept that egg warm for over a month. Then, one day, their egg hatched and they became the proud fathers of a baby penguin named Tango.

This story, celebrating how different loving families can be, is charming, amazing, humorous-- and utterly heartwarming!