For the third year in a row, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell’s And Tango Makes Three, about two male penguins who care for an orphaned egg and raise a chick, tops the American Library Association’s (ALA) Top Ten list of the Most Frequently Challenged Books. This despite the fact that the book is based on an actual same-sex penguin pair, and they are not the only ones.
Sarah Brannen’s guinea pig tale, Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, enters the list this year as I predicted. Since I’ve gone on and on about book challenges before, I’ll just refer you to my piece for last year’s Banned Books Week, in which I discuss Tango, Uncle Bobby, and even Sarah Palin. If you haven’t read the post yet, try to guess which children’s book featuring rabbits was challenged in 1959 for promoting (gasp!) interracial marriage.
Le plus ça change . . . .
… le plus c’est la meme livre.