‘Tango’ tops objectionable list for 2nd year

Sun., May 11, 2008

Hillel Italie Associated Press

A children’s story about a family of penguins with two fathers once again tops the list of most objectionable library books.

“And Tango Makes Three,” released in 2005 and co-written by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, was the most challenged book in public schools and libraries for the second straight year, according to the American Library Association.

Other books on the top 10 list include Maya Angelou’s memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” in which she writes of being raped as a young girl; Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” long attacked as racist; and Philip Pullman’s “The Golden Compass,” in which a former nun says: “The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.”

Pullman’s novel, released in 1996, received new attention last year because of the film version starring Nicole Kidman.

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