joan garry

I love this book.  Because it is an age appropriate book about two males who raise a baby together.  And because it is a true story.  It really happened at the Central Park Zoo.  Roy and Silo were inseparable as a couple for six years at the zoo.  They wanted to raise a baby so badly that they tried to hatch a rock (perhaps not the brightest bulbs).  So the zookeepers gave them an egg to hatch.  And they did.  And in so doing, they created a family.

It’s a lovely and remarkable story and one of the best and one of the few books that give kids of gay couples (or their friends) any images of gay families.

And while you can find it at Scholastic online, you won’t find it on any tables at any of the book fairs that come around to schools this time of year.

And yes this bugs me.  And yes I wrote about it for The Star Ledger this morning.  And yes, I’m hoping you will read it.  It’s called “Kids of Gay Families and Scholastic Book Fair Season.”