This isn't a review and I didn't feel like posting this on 4.0I've read this book when it first came out and I have to say it's pretty darn cute. Doesn't advocate anything really and is based on true story.

Gay penguins book is most banned
Authors, artists and musicians are due to gather at a library in San Francisco to protest against the banning of books in schools and libraries in the US.
The event, part of the 27th annual Banned Books Week, has been organised by the American Library Association.
Since 2001 bans on 3,736 books and other materials have been requested.
In recent years, And Tango Makes Three - based on a true story and centring on gay penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo - has had the most ban requests.
The book's authors are Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell.
Reasons given by organisations and individuals for their requests to get it removed from public shelves, include "anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group".
Other works featuring in the most-challenged books list for 2008 include Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner.
Parents' concern
Pullman told Britain's Guardian newspaper that he was glad to be on the list.
However he added: "Of course it's a worry when anybody takes it upon themselves to dictate what people should or should not read."
The association said the aim of the annual awareness week, which ends on Saturday, is to remind US citizens not to take their freedom for granted.
Among those at the San Francisco Public Library event will be authors and musicians Ben Fong-Torres, Richie Unterberger and Roy Zimmerman.
They plan to stage a number of performances and defend controversial books.
In 2008 the American Library Association recorded 517 ban requests. Seventy-four were successful.
The organisation recorded that the most common reason given was that contents were too "sexually explicit".
Other classic literature subjected to complaints include JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling also feature on the list.
Earlier this week, it was claimed that Harry Potter author JK Rowling missed out on the Presidential Medal of Freedom because some US politicians believed she "encouraged witchcraft".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8284509.stm
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We have this in our children's room. I am going to check it out and see what all the fuss is about.
1I love love love His Dark Materials. So much fun. I was sucked in from the beginning.
I think banning books is one of the most ridiculous things EVER! People, no one forces you to read a book, if you don't like the subject, don't read it or don't let your kids read it.
Why is this so hard for people to comprehend?
2I second that, Sy! I think I will check this out next time we are at the library!
3Exactly Sy. There's nothing worst than banning books. If they're going to bad any of them, ban the badly written and edited books ones.
4Hahaha! Good point Myst.
5I think Twilight should be banned.
Other than that, yeah, it's silly to ban books.
6I think Julie and Julia should be banned.
7I think banning books just gives them free publicity. More people are going to end up reading the book that was banned just because it was banned which really kind of defeats the purpose of banning books.
So yeah, I think banning is stupid. If you don't want to read it, leave it on the shelf.
8Good, point, Kas! I wouldn't have heard of this book otherwise, I don't think....
9We have it at the library I work at and I hadn't heard about it before it was banned.
10I've read a pretty impressive number of banned books and I turned out just fine.
11That's what you think...
12
jk!
13
....hmmmmm....that explains a few things about you, Sarah.....
14Well it explains my love of reading!
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