![]() ![]() ![]() This beautifully illustrated picture book highlights love and commitment in a relationship and the happiness that having a child brings. Roy and Silo teach Tango how to sing and swim and care for her until she is old enough to find her own mate. This heart warming story has a special ending as the penguins hatch the egg and become the fathers of Tango, a little female chick. Their keeper who has been observing their dedicated efforts decides to give them a fertilised egg that needs care. Hope springs eternal! Selecting an egg sized rock they diligent sit on it for a month…but sadly nothing happens. All seems perfect until they noticed that the girl penguins are laying an egg in each nest. They watched the other penguins building nests and collecting stones. Roy and Silo are different than the other couples. Roy and Silo are Chinstrap penguins who live in Central Park Zoo.Īs is the way of things, each year the boy and girl penguins start to notice each other and pair up to become couples. ![]() In real life this pair were inseparable for six years. They don’t know that neither of them can lay an egg and that their only chance of a family lies in an act of kindness and a donor egg.īased on a true story, the events in this book openly introduce children to a common occurrence in nature. They swim together, dance together and sing to each other. Author and Illustrator: Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell ![]()
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