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AND TANGO MAKES THREE. THE STORY OF AMERICA´S MOST BELOVED GAY PENGUIN FAMILY
And Tango Makes Three (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, April 26 2005) is a children's book written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and illustrated by Henry Cole, based on the true story of Roy and Silo, two penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo, who for a time, formed a couple. The book follows part of this time in the penguin's lives.
The pair were observed trying to hatch a rock that resembled an egg. When zookeepers realized that Roy and Silo were both male, it occurred to them to give them the second egg of a mixed-sex penguin couple, a couple which had previously been unable successfully to hatch two eggs at once. Roy and Silo hatched and raised the healthy young chick, a female named "Tango" by keepers, together as a family.
Awards and Recognition
And Tango Makes Three has received several national book awards. In 2006 it was named an American Library Association Notable Children's Book. It received the APCSA's Henry Bergh Award and the Gustavus Myer Outstanding Book Award. It was named a Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Book of the Year, a Bank Street Best Book of the Year, a Cooperative Children's Book Council Choice, and a CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book.Tango was also a finalist for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award.
Controversy
The book has generated controversy among parents in some parts of the United States
In Shiloh Illinois, some parents of students at Shiloh Elementary School requested in November 2006 that the book be placed in a restricted section of the library and for the school to consider that students have parental permission prior to checking the book out. The school superintendent resolved instead to keep the book available to all students.
In Missouri, parents had the book moved to the school library's non-fiction section.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, the superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Peter Gorman, ordered the book removed from school libraries on December 20, 2006. Gorman agreed to let a committee review the decision due to concerns that the policy on banning books was not followed.
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AND TANGO MAKES THREE. THE STORY OF AMERICA´S MOST BELOVED GAY PENGUIN FAMILY
And Tango Makes Three (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, April 26 2005) is a children's book written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and illustrated by Henry Cole, based on the true story of Roy and Silo, two penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo, who for a time, formed a couple. The book follows part of this time in the penguin's lives.
The pair were observed trying to hatch a rock that resembled an egg. When zookeepers realized that Roy and Silo were both male, it occurred to them to give them the second egg of a mixed-sex penguin couple, a couple which had previously been unable successfully to hatch two eggs at once. Roy and Silo hatched and raised the healthy young chick, a female named "Tango" by keepers, together as a family.
Awards and Recognition
And Tango Makes Three has received several national book awards. In 2006 it was named an American Library Association Notable Children's Book. It received the APCSA's Henry Bergh Award and the Gustavus Myer Outstanding Book Award. It was named a Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Book of the Year, a Bank Street Best Book of the Year, a Cooperative Children's Book Council Choice, and a CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book.Tango was also a finalist for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award.
Controversy
The book has generated controversy among parents in some parts of the United States
In Shiloh Illinois, some parents of students at Shiloh Elementary School requested in November 2006 that the book be placed in a restricted section of the library and for the school to consider that students have parental permission prior to checking the book out. The school superintendent resolved instead to keep the book available to all students.
In Missouri, parents had the book moved to the school library's non-fiction section.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, the superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Peter Gorman, ordered the book removed from school libraries on December 20, 2006. Gorman agreed to let a committee review the decision due to concerns that the policy on banning books was not followed.
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Φίλε erva, κάτι τέτοια διαβάζω και επανεπιβεβαιώνω πόσο τριτικοσμική σε θέματα "ηθικής" είναι η χώρα μας - όπου πάντως έχουμε μεγάλη άνεση να κατηγορήσουμε τις ΗΠΑ ότι είναι συντηρητικό, φονταμενταλιστικό χριστιανικό κράτος. Φαντάσου να μεταραστεί το βιβλίο στα ελληνικά! Σαν να το βλέπω: δελτία ειδήσεων να κάνουν ειρωνικά ρεπορτάζ με επιφανειακή "αντικειμενικότητα", πάνελ πολιτικών και λοιπών άσχετων να αναλύουν τις αρχές της σύγχρονης παιδαγωγικής και αναπτυξιακής ψυχολογίας, κυρίες με κώτσο να πολιορκούν τον "Πολύχρωμο Πλανήτη" (κενένας άλλος εκδοτικός οίκος δεν θα το εξέδιδε), τον Παναγιώτη Ψωμιάδη να δηλώνει "η χλωρα μας έχει τόσα προβλήματα, όπως η υπογεννητικότητα, ας τα λύσουμε πρώτα εκείνα και μετά να ασχοληθούμε με τους ομοφυλόφιλους", το ΚΚΕ να σιωπά επιδεικτικά, και δεν συμμαζεύεται...
Επίσης, οι κατά τα άλλα ανοιχτόμυαλοι έλληνες βιβλιοκριτικοί θα το αγνοούσαν περιφρονητικά, γιατί "η παιδική λογοτεχνία δεν μπορεί και δεν πρέπει να έχει σεξουαλικό προσανατολισμό" και "σημασία έχει να είναι καλή λογοτεχνία" και εννοείται ότι ακόμη και χωρίς να το διαβάσουν ξέρουν ότι πρόκειται για σκουπίδι.
Κι ας μην μιλήσουμε και για τα διάφορα λογοτεχνικά μπλογκ που προσεγγίζουν τη λογοτεχνία ..."οικουμενικά".
Θλίψη!
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