I went to the interent to read some reviews on this book. I only could find thousands of positive things posted about this book. Everyone said how this book is a very sweet loving story.  And they loved that it is based on a true story! Many people also stated how it was their kids favorite story and how they wanted the book to be read to them nighty.

The cite that I went to was www.goodreads.com>childrens>picturebook

Book Analysis

Skyler Rader                                                                
10/12/14

Children’s Book Analysis

 

The book I choose was “And Tango Makes Three”

Author by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell

Illustrated by Henry Cole

Year text copyright - 2005, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data – 1963

 

This story takes place in the middle of New York City at a park called Central Park. There is a zoo at this park and there are many penguins that live there. The story starts off by talking about all the different animal families in the zoo. It stops at the penguin families to tell us of a penguin family that is different from all the other penguin families. This family had two daddies. The male penguins got to become a family because the zoo keeper gave them an abandoned egg to hatch. The male penguins did everything that the other mommy and daddy families did.  The only difference between the families is that one of the families has two daddies and the rest of the families have a mommy and a daddy.

I believe that the zoo keeper had wisdom because he is the one that gave the two male penguins an abandoned egg so that the two male penguins could have a family too. The male penguins showed many signs of wanting to become parents because every day they got their nest ready like the other penguins. The consequences of the two male penguins behaviors was positive because they were able to show the zoo keeper that they wanted to be parents and they were great parents. The language in this story was all positive. The story only talked in a positively about how there are lots of different kinds of families out there and the anything that is important is that you’re in a family full of love. I feel that this story was wrote very political correct and the pictures are very true to what the animals look like in real life. The only problem I could see with this story besides that there is two daddies (if that bothers someone) is that the author talks in “Author’s note” (back of book) about how these are the only two male penguins that have family. With that being said someone could use it in a negative way and say, see its normal for two male penguins to have a family so it’s not ok to live like that. It's wrong. I feel that there is no stereotype going on because both the male and female penguins help lay their eggs. They take turns, one of the penguins was always sitting on the egg. They are working as team to hatch the egg.

I would recommend this book because I think it is a very well written story about how all that matters is that everyone lives in a loving family environment. What doesn’t matter is how the family is made up.