Go the F**k to Sleep
Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortés
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 Cortés, Go the Fuck 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.
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.
The eagles who soar through the sky are at rest
And the creatures who crawl, run, and creep.
I know you’re not thirsty. That’s bullshit. Stop lying.
Lie the f**k down, my darling, and sleep.
Other press:
Watch Adam’s interview with Channel 7’s Sunrise.
Read Noni’s comments in the Age.
Listen to Adam’s interview with Fran Kelly on ABC Radio National Breakfast.
Or listen to Samuel L. Jackson or Werner Herzog reading this hilariously wicked bedtime story…
Praise for Go the F**k to Sleep:
The language? WTF! This hilarious, politically incorrect book is totally correct about the feelings of sleepless, brain-dead parents.
Mem Fox
Anyone who has ever struggled to put a child to bed will find solace in this “children’s book for parents”…Order it now.
Canberra Times
What makes this…book seductive is not so much its profanity as its articulation of verboten parental thoughts…see full review.
New York Times
The book has been described as the most honest children’s book ever, and I couldn’t agree more…being able to laugh, instead of cry, through those long waking nights can only be a healthy thing.
Letitia Rowlands, Daily Telegraph
F-word in children’s book makes for a hit. Read full article.
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