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Brief Description:
"[A] bedtime book for parents who live in the real world ... profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar--and unspoken--tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night ... You probably should not read it to your children"--P. [4] of cover.
Marc Notes:
AKB 224--Spine.;[A] bedtime book for parents who live in the real world ... profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar--and unspoken--tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night ... You probably should not read it to your children--P. [4] of cover.
Review Quotes:
Delightfully obscene.-- "Newsweek"
Review Quotes:
By any definition, the subversive
Go the F*ck to Sleep--in which a desperate father cajoles his child to please, please, slip off into dreamland--is a real game changer; it lets frazzled parents vicariously enjoy chastising their stubborn offspring with well-placed profanity while never uttering a harsh word aloud.-- "Miami Herald"
Review Quotes:
Adam Mansbach's
Go the F*ck to Sleep is the most controversial picture book on the shelves. Exhausted by his own daughter Vivien's tedious two-hour bedtime routine, Adam penned a would-be bedtime book that speaks the mind of beleaguered parents everywhere and the difficulties of getting your child to 'Go the F*ck to Sleep.'-- "In Touch Weekly"
Review Quotes:
Perfectly timed, lightly applied touches of profanity are funny. Super funny. It's especially the case when the profanity puts words to common feelings that we aren't really allowed to own up to. Well, in that spirit comes this perfect little picture-book parody.-- "Booklist"
Review Quotes:
Anyone who has ever had a newborn, an infant, a baby, a toddler, a preschooler . . . oh, heck, anyone who has ever known a young child will understand the impetus behind Adam Mansbach's runaway bestseller and 'children's book for adults.'-- "Shelf Awareness"
Review Quotes:
The bracing language may be earning it headlines, but its true appeal--and, I suspect, the reason it has caught on with the toddler-terrorised masses--lies in its unapologetic acknowledgment that early parenthood is a struggle, a state defined as often by frustration as delight. For the exhausted parent, nudged to the brink of sanity by lack of sleep,
Go the F*ck to Sleep is more than a reason to snigger--it's a gesture of compassion.-- "Daily Telegraph (UK)"
Review Quotes:
Total genius.--Jonathan Lethem, father of two, author of Motherless Brooklyn
Description for Sales People:
10,000-copy first printing.
A perfect gift book for parents of young children.
Beyond the obvious humor, the book has deep emotional resonances for parents since sleep deprivation is often the major psychological/emotional challenge for people with young children.
Biographical Note:
Adam Mansbach's novels include The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award, and the best-selling Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005. His fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Believer, Granta, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He was the 2010-2011 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University. His daughter, Vivien, was his inspiration for Go the F*** to Sleep.
Ricardo Cortes has illustrated books about marijuana (It's Just a Plant), electricity, the Jamaican bobsled team, Chinese food, and A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle, and on the O'Reilly Factor and CNN. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Publisher Marketing:
One of
Reader's Digest's "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." --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*ck 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 Cortés, Go the F*ck to Sleep is beautiful, subversive, and pants-wittingly funny--a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.
Review Citations:
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People Weekly 06/06/2011 pg. 63 (EAN 9781617750250, Hardcover)
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Entertainment Weekly 07/01/2011 pg. 79 (EAN 9781617750250, Hardcover)
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Entertainment Weekly 07/22/2011 pg. 78 (EAN 9781617750250, Hardcover)
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Publishers Weekly 08/29/2011 (EAN 9781455841653, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review
Contributor Bio:Mansbach, Adam
Adam Mansbach is a novelist, screenwriter, humorist, and cultural critic (in addition to having built an obscene fake children's book empire). His books include
Rage Is Back, the California Book Award-winning
The End of the Jews, and the best sellers
Angry Black White Boy and
For This We Left Egypt?, cowritten with Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. Mansbach was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his screenplay for the Netflix Original
Barry, and is currently adapting his middle-grade novel
Jake the Fake Keeps It Real for the Disney Channel. His work has appeared in the
New Yorker, the
New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and on National Public Radio's
This American Life, the
Moth, and
All Things Considered.
Contributor Bio:Cortés, Ricardo
RICARDO CORTÉS is the #1
New York Times best-selling illustrator of
Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach and
Party: A Mystery, by the acclaimed author Jamaica Kincaid. Cortés has written and illustrated books including
Sea Creatures from the Sky and
A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola. His work has been featured in the
New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and on CNN, Fox News, and the
Late Show with David Letterman. You can see his work at Rmcortes.com, or on Twitter and Instagram at @Rmcortes. His latest work is the updated edition of
It's Just a Plant.
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