Gus and Waldo's Book of Love

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Gus and Waldo's Book of Love (2006) is a picture book that deals with the love that two fictional anthropomorphic gay penguins share for one another.

Gus & Waldo's Book of Love cover

[edit] Synopsis

Gus and Waldo share food, pastimes, shopping and a bed together, although their relationship experiences slight turbulence over such everyday foibles as bedtime snoring, divergent red and yellow tastes in sunglasses frames, extravagant shopping and other issues, which leads the couple to a chameleon relationship counsellor who informs them that "penguins mate for life." (This is factually disputable, and depends on which penguin subspecies is being cited, as this is not the case with all them, but only with a few, such as the Humboldt penguin, the Macaroni penguin, the Rockhopper penguin and the Yellow-eyed penguin. Gus and Waldo's subspecies is not identified). The book ends happily as the loving birds decide that as "Fighting's Neither Fun Nor Clever/Gus and Waldo Love Each Other Forever!"

(As the book contains a two page spread of the penguins in non-explicit fetish wear, it is probably not suitable for young children).

The book is the first in a series and was first published in 2006 in the U.K. (also distributed in all Commonwealth countries) and later translated and published also in Germany, Finland and Brazil and is due out in Italy later on in 2008. The second volume in the series (Gus & Waldo's Book of Fame) was published in October 2007 in the U.K. and the third one (Gus & Waldo's Book of Sex) is due to be published in October 2008.