![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The authors were trying to have a child when they read the Times article. The same-sex couple sat on the egg, which hatched, and the baby penguin was named Tango, since it “takes two.” A zookeeper took pity on them and gave them a fertile egg from another penguin couple that had problems tending The penguins, who had had a six-year intimate relationship by then, tried to hatch a rock in their nest. The two men first learned of the story of Roy and Silo, two male penguins in the Central Park Zoo, who hatched an egg together, through an article in The baby, Gemma Parnell-Richardson, wasīorn to a surrogate mother, the egg fertilized by sperm from one of the men. ![]() In February, the gay couple, who live in the West Village, had their first child. Now the authors of the book, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, have their own baby Tango. It’s yet another example of life imitating art, or at least humans imitating animals.Įver since “And Tango Makes Three,” a children’s book detailing the story of two male penguins and the baby chick they hatched, has been published, in 2005, more people have requested the book’s removal each year from schools and libraries than any other book in the United States, according to the American Library Association. Simon and Schuster “And Tango Makes Three,” by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, is the most challenged book in America for the third year in a row. ![]()
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