“A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep.”–National Public Radio “Nothing has driven home a certain truth about my generation, which is approaching the apex of its childbearing years, quite like this.” –The New Yorker Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep. The eagles who soar through the sky are at restĪnd the creatures who crawl, run, and creep. I'll read you one very last book if you swear You're cozy and warm in your bed, my dear. You probably should not read it to your children. With illustrations by Ricardo Cortés, Go the F**k to Sleep is beautiful, subversive and pants-wettingly funny-a book for parents new, old and expectant. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity. 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. 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. Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach (Hard cover - 21cmx16cm) And I would say ‘Yeah, go the f-k to sleep'.Not for the faint hearted - WARNING CONTAINS BAD LANGUAGE But I did say ‘Go the F-k to Sleep’ to her a lot, and I think at some point she would look at me when I would come into her room, and she would look at me and say ‘Go the F-k to Sleep, Daddy!’.
Actually if I picked her up and made up a story it worked a lot better. And I remember all those times when I did read to my daughter when she was that age and everybody tells you that reading stories will put kids to sleep, but it never works. "I was anxious to do the audio read of this book because my agent has twins and he gave me the book and I read it and I fell out laughing. Due to its explicit language, you probably should not play it for your children. Beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny, Go the F-k to Sleep is a book for parents new, old, and expectant.
In the process, he opens up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.
California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach’s profane, affectionate, and radically honest verses perfectly capture the familiar - and unspoken - tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. 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. Jackson ( Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep.
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