Penguin Love…. Would You Read this Book to Your Child?

Posted on May 17th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This book offended the most library users in 2007 - and the year before too. Was it a political book? An explicit novel? An ultra-violent thriller?
Nope - it’s about penguins. And Tango Makes Three is a children’s picture book [...]

 

Contributed by brit
Tags: children’s books, Fathers, reading
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