PublishedText Publishing, July 2011 |
ISBN9781921758843 |
FormatHardcover, 32 pages |
Dimensions21.5cm × 16.4cm × 1cm |
The international bestseller, a gift book for parents that will have them laughing even as they cry.
Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland.
Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar-and unspoken-tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations and laugh at their absurdity.
With illustrations by Ricardo Corte s, Go the F**k to Sleep is beautiful, subversive and pants-wettingly funny-a book for parents new, old and expectant. You should probably not read it to your children.
SAMPLE-
The cats nestle close to their kittens,
The lambs have laid down with the sheep.
You're cozy and warm in your bed, my dear.
Please go the f**k to sleep.
The windows are dark in the town, child.
The whales huddle down in the deep.
I'll read you one very last book if you swear
You'll go the f**k to sleep.
PRAISE-
'A new Bible for weary parents' New York Times
'The language? WTF! This hilarious, politically incorrect book is totally correct about the feelings of sleepless, brain-dead parents.' Mem Fox
'There might be some parents who don't relate to this book. But not many.' Noni Hazlehurst
'A children's book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud-hilarious!' David Byrne, musician
'A hilarious take on that age-old problem- getting the beloved child to go to sleep.' National Public Radio
