And Tango Makes Three- Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

"And Tango Makes Three" is a wonderful book to teach children about different families. Roy and Silo are two male penguins who are in love and when the zoo keeper sees the couple copy the nest making behaviour exhibited by the other couples in the Penguin house, he gives them an egg.

Tango becomes the first baby penguin in the zoo to have two daddies. This is a true story and you can see Roy, Silo and Tango if you visit New York City Zoo.

This was one of the first books I used that explored same sex relationships and different families and was part of the No Outsiders book list back in 2006. I am overjoyed to see it being re-published in 2015.

See lesson plans for this book in
"Emotional Health and well being: 100+ lesson plans for the primary classroom" by Andrew Moffat (Speechmark 2012)
and
"No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the equality act in primary schools" (Speechmark 2015)