Go the F**k to Sleep

Name: Go the F**k to Sleep
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ISBN: 9781921758843

Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortés

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English

Text Publishing Company
06 July 2011

Fiction & Literature; Humour

The international bestseller, a gift book for parents that will have you laughing even as you cry.

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

SAMPLE:

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.

PRAISE:

'A new Bible for weary parents' New York Times

'The language? WTF! This hilarious, politically incorrect book is totally correct about the feelings of sleepless, brain-dead parents.' Mem Fox

'There might be some parents who don't relate to this book. But not many.' Noni Hazlehurst

'A children's book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud - hilarious!' David Byrne, musician

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

By: Adam Mansbach
Illustrated by: Ricardo Cortés
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 209g
ISBN: 9781921758843
ISBN 10: 1921758848
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 06 July 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Go the F**k to Sleep

'The books 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.' * Daily Telegraph * '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 * 'There might be some parents who don't relate to this book. But not many.' -- Noni Hazlehurst 'Filled with the same humour and exasperation as the first, [Seriously, Just Go to Sleep] will have you snickering.' * Practical Parenting * 'Clever, funny and cathartic, parents and babysitters alike will love it.' 4 stars * Big Issue * 'The language? WTF! This hilarious, politically incorrect book is totally correct about the feelings of sleepless, brain-dead parents.' -- Mem Fox