Friday, November 2, 2012

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
















Setting: Central Park Zoo, New York, Penguin Exhibit
Characters: Silo, Roy, Mr. Gramzay, Tango
Theme: Families are family no matter who is in them

At the Central Park Zoo there are many families, but when it was time for the girl and boy penguins to couple up, Roy and Silo stayed together. They were always together, and they even wound their necks together like other penguin couples. Mr. Gramzay said that they must be in love. They made a nest together like the others, but they had no egg. They tried sitting on a rock, but nothing happened. Mr. Gramzay gave them an abandoned egg and they hatched it. They named their new little girl Tango because it takes two to Tango. Tango was the first penguin to have two dads. They took her for her first swim and everyone at the zoo cheered. At the end of the night, they all snuggled up together and slept like any other family.