Celebrating “And Tango Makes Three”

Sep 11, 2025 | News & Events,

Please join us for our 2025 Banned Books Week program, Celebrating “And Tango Makes Three” on October 9 at noon at the High Low, 3301 Washington. “And Tango Makes Three” tells the heartwarming true story of two male penguins who create a family at the Central Park Zoo. Published in 2005, it remains one of the nation’s most challenged books. Our program partners are August Mense (St. Louis Public Library), Julius Anthony (St. Louis Black Authors of Children’s Literature), Mood Al-Kurdi, Chloe Cuggino-Zensky, and Rahul Keeranoor (WashULaw First Amendment Clinic). This free event is part of the Kranzberg Arts Foundation’s weekly High Noon at the High Low series.

About Banned Books Week
Of course, no one is celebrating banned books — except those banning books! Banned Books Week (October 5-11) celebrates the freedom to read by highlighting current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

We proudly hosted these Banned Books Week programs: Between the Lines: A Banned Books Week Poetry Reading with the Saint Louis Poetry Center in 2024, Librarians Respond with ACLU-MO and a librarian panel in 2023, and Celebrating the Freedom to Read with drag queen storyteller Maxi Glamour and attorney Mark Sableman in 2022.