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The #1 New York Times bestseller―a gift book for parents that will have them laughing even as they cry.
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 Fuck 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 Fuck 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.
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Also Available in this series by Adam Mansbach
The long-awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times best-selling classic Go the F*k to Sleep The third installment in Adam Mansbach’s international best-selling Go the F*k to Sleep series addresses, with radical honesty, the family implosion that occurs when a second child arrives Celebrating a decade of profane, loving, and deeply cathartic children’s books for adults, the entire Go the F*K to Sleep trilogy is finally available in a collectors’-edition boxed set. This laugh-out-loud, latest installment in Adam Mansbach’s profane, #1 New York Times best-selling series, probably CAN be read to―and by―your graduating child, though it might bring you all to tears
Publisher : Akashic Books, Ltd.
Publication date : June 14, 2011
Edition : First Edition
Language : English
Print length : 32 pages
ISBN-10 : 1617750255
ISBN-13 : 978-1617750250
Item Weight : 7.2 ounces
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.4 x 6.5 inches
Book 1 of 3 : Go the Fuck to Sleep
Best Sellers Rank: #1,094 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Parody #2 in Parenting & Families Humor #6 in Love, Sex & Marriage Humor
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