Go the F**k to Sleep - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1617750255 ISBN 13: 9781617750250

Publisher: Akashic Books, 2011

Synopsis

A Reader's Digest "25 Funniest Books of All Time"

"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

"A parenting zeitgeist"
--Washington Post

"A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep."
--National Public Radio

"A new Bible for weary parents"
--New York Times

"Resonates powerfully with almost everyone"
--Boston Globe

"Go the F*** to Sleep challenges stereotypes, opens up prototypes, and acknowledges that shared sense of failure that comes to all parents who weary of ever getting their darling(s) to sleep and briefly resuming the illusion of a life of their own."
--Midwest Book Review

Go the F*** 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 Cortes, Go the F*** to Sleep is beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny--a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.

Seriously, Just Go to Sleep, a children's book inspired by Go the F*** to Sleep and appropriate for kids of all ages, is also available, as well as Seriously, You Have to Eat for finicky ones everywhere!

About this title

Review:

"Total genius" (Jonathan Lethem, author of MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN, father of two)

"Beautiful, brilliant, funny as fuck. A new Contented Little Baby Book for the discontented parent" (Helen Walsh, author of GO TO SLEEP, mother of one)

"This is the most honest children's book ever written. And it's f*cking hilarious" (A.J. Jacobs, author of THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY, father of three)

"An instantly recognisable and timeless theme tune for bleary-eyed parents everywhere - a hymn to the horrors of bedtime. Beautifully crafted, rhythmical, affectionate, profane and searingly honest, it is very funny." (Alex Frean Times)

"A gleeful howl of blasphemy ... for the exhausted parent, nudged to the brink of sanity by lack of sleep, GTFTS is more than a reason to snigger - it's a gesture of compassion." (Benjamin Secher Daily Telegraph)

"Bedtime stories will never be the same again" (Viv Groskop The Guardian)

"A children's book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud - hilarious!" (David Byrne, musician, father of one)

"The secret anthem of tired parents everywhere" (Bliss Boyard, author of ONE DROP: MY FATHER'S HIDDEN LIFE, mother of two)

"Hilariously funny, it gets the tone bang on - and it's comforting to know bedtime is a universally fraught experience." (News of the World)

"It subverts accepted notions of what is meant by 'good' parenting ... a clever conceit, executed with panache" (The Lady)

Book Description:

The bestselling gift book for exhausted parents everywhere

About this edition

• Publisher: Akashic Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1617750255
• ISBN 13: 9781617750250
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Cortés Ricardo