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And Tango Makes Three


By Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell

Reading Level: Early Elementary School, Late Elementary School
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2005
At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches. Based on a true story.

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